Donald Trump ulcerates Ben Affleck and Matt Damon by hijacking a sequence from their film Air

Donald Trump is still angry with the principle of copyright. The former American president, charged with having carried away thousands of documents, some of which are confidential, also attracted the wrath this weekend of actors and best friends of Hollywood Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. The Republican billionaire used an excerpt from the film Air, produced by the notoriously Democratic duo, in a fundraising clip. Without asking for any permission.

For the purposes of his spot, Donald Trump used as a soundtrack, on images showing him in action, a key monologue from Air. In this excerpt, Matt Damon exclaims, "Money can buy you just about anything but not immortality."

Through their production box, Ben Affeck and Matt Damon condemned this diversion. “We were not aware of this use. We do not consent or approve of any audio footage from Air being taken up by the Trump campaign as political advertising or for any other use,” the statement read. “Under United States copyright and intellectual property law, we hereby expressly give notice that regardless of the nature for which the Trump campaign would broadcast excerpts from Air, no authorization or consent has been given to them. granted”.

Available on Amazon Prime Video, Air, directed by Ben Affleck, tells how the pundits of Nike approached Michael Jordan to offer him to be the image of the brand's sneakers. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck star alongside Jason Bateman and Viola Davis.

As The Hollywood Reporter reminds us, this is not the first time that Donald Trump has been called to order by the rights holders of cultural works. HBO and Warner resented the mogul's use of footage from Batman: The Dark Knight and Game Of Thrones in social media posts.