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Matt Damon And Ben Affleck Rip Donald Trump For Using Movie Speech In AI-Aided Ad

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck slammed Donald Trump for using a speech from their recent movie in a campaign ad without express consent. Trump posted a video on his Truth Social Saturday, featuring Damon's monologue as the Nike marketing and sales representative Sonny Vaccaro in the Affleck-directed film “Air.” It shows Trump stepping out of planes and greeting supporters as Damon says: “Money can buy you almost anything. It can't buy you immortality, that you have to earn.” Damon then talks about facing adversity as those who once supported you try to tear you down in the film about Nike's partnership with Michael Jordan, which Trump took advantage of for his new campaign ad complete with an AI-produced image of him kneeling in prayer. The video then dissolves into a crowd at one of Trump's rallies chanting “U-S-A, U-S-A” before showing a donation screen with the phrase “Make America Great Again.” After the video was posted, a spokesperson for Artists Equity, Damon and Affleck's production company, told the Daily Beast the Trump campaign didn’t have permission to use the monologue. “We had no foreknowledge of, did not consent to and did not endorse or approve any footage of audio from Air being repurposed by the Trump campaign as a political advertisement or for any other use,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “We hereby expressly give notice that in the case of any use of material from Air by the Trump campaign where approval or consent is required, we do not grant such consent.”

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