Elon Musk blasts Ben Stiller with shock slur after actor said 'woke' Hollywood is killing 'edgier' comedy

Elon Musk has blasted Ben Stiller and adjacent utilized a daze slur from the movie Tropic Thunder aft the histrion had expressed doubts a movie similar Tropic Thunder would person been greenlit successful today's woke climate.

 The 53-year-old - who was named arsenic co-head of Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) - took to his X (formally Twitter) level to instrumentality a changeable astatine the 58-year-old drama actor.

 Elon had reposted an X user's screenshot of DailyMail.com's communicative connected Ben with the header 'Ben Stiller says woke America killed 'edgier' comedy' on a photograph of 1 of Ben's characters successful Tropic Thunder named Simple Jack.

The idiosyncratic captioned it: 'Says this..... Endorsed Kamala....'

Elon referenced the 2008 movie by captioning the repost: 'Damn helium went afloat r***** [to laughing rolling connected the level portion crying emojis]'

The slur was not censored connected the platform. Ben's Simple Jack quality was a mentally challenged workplace lad who tin speech to animals.

Meanwhile, the contention began erstwhile Ben, who directed and starred successful the now-controversial comedy/action film, said 'edgier' drama is 'just harder to do' now, successful a caller interrogation with Collider.

When asked if a movie similar that — which has since been labelled racially offensive — could beryllium made successful the existent environment, helium replied, 'I uncertainty it.'

He added, 'Definitely not astatine the standard we made it at, too, successful presumption of the economics of the business.'

'I deliberation adjacent astatine the clip we were fortunate to get it made, and I recognition that, actually, to Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks. He work it and was like, "Alright, let's marque this thing." It's a precise wrong movie erstwhile you deliberation astir it.'

He past referenced Robert Downey Jr.'s 'dicey' relation successful the movie, which has been criticized for its usage of 'blackface.'

Downey Jr.'s quality undergoes a fictional process called 'pigmentation alteration' to represent a Black worker successful a film. 

'The thought of Robert playing that quality who's playing an African American character, I mean, incredibly dicey,' Stiller stated.

'Even astatine the time, of course, it was dicey too. The lone crushed we attempted it was I felt similar the gag was precise wide successful presumption of who that gag was connected – actors trying to bash thing to triumph awards.'

 'But now, successful this environment, I don't adjacent cognize if I would person ventured to bash it, to archer you the truth. I'm being honest.'

Last year, Stiller staunchly defended Tropic Thunder — which also starred Tom Cruise, Jack Black, Brandon T. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey — and insisted he's 'proud' of the deed movie aft it was slammed by woke mob for Downey Jr.'s 'blackface.'

He denied issuing an apology connected behalf of his deed drama aft it was targeted by woke millennials for perceived racist undertones and violative depictions of the disabled.

The Stiller directed movie astir a radical of hapless actors who are forced to fend for themselves aft getting mislaid portion filming a warfare movie connected determination successful Vietnamese jungle was a planetary deed pursuing its merchandise successful 2008.

However, it caller years it's been considered racially insensitive successful parts owed to Downey Jr.'s portrayal of Kirk Lazarus, an Australian method histrion who surgically darkens the pigment of his tegument to play an African-American soldier.

Stiller defended the movie successful a station connected X (formerly Twitter) and insisted helium has ne'er apologized for his determination to make the movie from an archetypal screenplay co-written by the histrion and Justin Theroux.

His admittance was a effect to 1 of galore posts issued successful defence of the film.

'@BenStiller Please halt apologizing for doing this movie. It was and inactive is comic AF... Even funnier present with cancel civilization the mode it is. It's a MOVIE.

'Ya'll [sic] tin conscionable get implicit it. I was DYING laughing erstwhile I archetypal saw it backmost successful the time and truthful was everyone else,' the station read.

In response, Stiller tweeted: 'I marque nary apologies for Tropic Thunder. Don’t cognize who told you that. It’s ever been a arguable movie since erstwhile we opened. Proud of it and the enactment everyone did connected it.'

A 2nd societal media follower drew attraction to an historical tweet from actor, posted successful effect to a lighthearted assertion that Tropic Thunder should beryllium banned aft US snowboarder Shaun White dressed arsenic Simple Jack, a disabled quality successful the film, for Halloween successful 2018.

Commenting astatine the time, Stiller wrote: 'Actually Tropic Thunder was boycotted 10 years agone erstwhile it came out, and I apologized then.'

'It was ever meant to marque amusive of actors trying to bash thing to triumph awards. I basal by my apology, the movie, Shaun White, And the large radical and enactment of the @SpecialOlympics.'

Following its merchandise the movie sparked a conjugation of much than 20 disablement advocacy groups, among them the Special Olympics, to protestation against its wide usage of the connection "retard."

More precocious Downey Jr. has been targeted by woke millennials for his relation arsenic a achromatic histrion portraying a achromatic character, contempt the self-aware quality of Stiller's publication and his determination to question support from the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) earlier it arsenic released.

Discussing the movie successful 2020, Downey Jr. admitted helium had his ain reservations astir taking the role, which yet won him a 2009 Oscar nomination, earlier having a alteration of heart.

'I thought: "Yeah, I’ll bash that. I’ll bash that aft Iron Man,"' helium told The Joe Rogan Experience. 'And past I started thinking, "This is simply a unspeakable idea."

'I thought: "Hold on, dude. Get existent here. Where is your heart?" My bosom is a) I get to beryllium achromatic for a summertime successful my mind, truthful there’s thing successful it for me.

'The different happening is I get to clasp up to quality the insane, self-involved hypocrisy of artists and what they deliberation they’re allowed to bash connected occasion.'