Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip. We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie, Stiller wrote.
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I have the rights back to everything now. And getting the rights back to all my things has been a big part of my journey in recent years. I look at any TV or movie adaptation as another facet of the worlds I've created, and it's something I want to be in charge of.
We demand that the amateurs in control of the ICE social media account take it down. It ain't funny, this song means a lot to us and other people, and you don't get to appropriate it without a fight. Also, go fuck yourselves.