Ben Stiller has declared that social media posts making the rounds online, which allege that he used American tax dollars to fund his 2022 trip to Ukraine, are “totally false” and “untrue.”

The There’s Something About Mary actor and the producer of Apple TV+ series Severance reposted social media messages that decried the use of public funds to send celebrities like himself to Ukraine to, as one claimed, increase the popularity of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. A video that accompanied the original posting featured an E! News watermark and an odd-sounding voice that named several celebrities who had supposedly been funded by the United States Agency for International Development. Stiller’s trip, it alleged, had cost $4 million.

The faux posts that he cited had already been flagged with an advisory to readers on X, which is owned by President Donald Trump‘s adviser Elon Musk, that readers had added context to the video. They noted that the video was not actually from the source it claimed to be.

For his part, Stiller said, “These are lies coming from Russian media. I completely self-funded my humanitarian trip to Ukraine. There was no funding from USAID and certainly no payment of any kind.”

See one of his posts below.

The false video claims that celebrities including Angelina Jolie, Sean Penn, Orlando Bloom, and Jean-Claude Van Damme cleaned up with “payments.”

Stiller visited Ukraine to mark World Refugee Day 2022, as a goodwill ambassador for humanitarian organization UNHCR, which noted at the time that he was there to “stand in solidarity with people displaced by war and conflict all around the world”

USAID was created in 1961 by an executive order from President John F. Kennedy, according to the now-disabled USAID website, and worked to improve conditions in more than 100 countries.

“Our objective is to support partners to become self-reliant and capable of leading their own development journeys. We make progress toward this by reducing the reach of conflict, preventing the spread of pandemic disease, and counteracting the drivers of violence, instability, transnational crime and other security threats,” according to the former site’s history. “We promote American prosperity through investments that expand markets for U.S. exports; create a level playing field for U.S. businesses; and support more stable, resilient, and democratic societies. We stand with people when disaster strikes or crisis emerges as the world leader in humanitarian assistance.”

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Stiller’s flag comes as the Trump administration, in the past two weeks, has frozen foreign aid programs and “fired. furloughed or put on leave the bulk of USAID employees,” according to the Washington Post. The world’s richest man, Musk leads a team under White House supervision called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which has targeted USAID for dismantling. Musk’s status is as “a special government employee,” a “temporary appointment that allows a person to work for no more than 130 days a year to perform ‘limited’ services,” NPR reported.