Why Ben Stiller won't cut Trump scene from 'Zoolander'

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Ben Stiller, who directed and starred in the film, detailed how then-private citizen Trump scored a cameo in the movie in the first place, and why the film will continue to include him."We were shooting at the now defunct VH1 Fashion Awards," Ben told the Daily Beast podcast "The New Abnormal," "and as people were coming up the red carpet, we pulled them aside and asked them to talk about Derek Zoolander, and so Trump and Melania did that."Over the years, there have been calls to erase Trump from the comedy, but Ben has balked. "I've had people reach out to me and say, 'You should edit Donald Trump out of Zoolander,' but at the end of the day, that was a time when that exists and that happened," Ben said.Ben, who has donated to many.