MONTREAL, Dec 27, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Canada’s national public broadcaster
confirmed Thursday it had cut out US President Donald Trump’s cameo from the
movie “Home Alone 2,” but said after a social media outcry that the edit was
made before he was elected.
When the CBC recently aired the 1992 Christmas film, some viewers and
Canadian media outlets noticed Trump’s scene had been cut out and wanted to
know why — especially because the US leader had said on Tuesday it was an
“honor” to be involved in the movie.
“As is often the case with feature films adapted for television, ‘Home
Alone 2’ was edited for time,” said CBC spokesman Chuck Thompson.
“The scene with Donald Trump was one of several that were cut from the
movie as none of them were integral to the plot. These edits were done in
2014, when we first acquired the film and before Mr Trump was elected
president” in 2016, Thompson said.
Many social media users accused the CBC of making a politically motivated
decision, and Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. tweeted that he thought the move
was “pathetic.”
But the US president seemed to find the kerfuffle amusing, taking to
Twitter on Thursday night to quip about his Canadian counterpart: “I guess
Justin T doesn’t much like my making him pay up on NATO or Trade!”
“The movie will never be the same!” Trump lamented, before clarifying
“(Just kidding.)”
Trump appears very briefly in “Home Alone 2.”
Young Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin), forgotten by his family,
struggles to navigate the gilded hotel where he’s staying for the holidays.
He stops a man wearing a long black overcoat and a red tie to ask him how
to get to the lobby.
“Down the hall and to the left,” says Donald Trump.
The real estate mogul had purchased the Plaza Hotel in New York — the
setting of many movie scenes, including several in “Home Alone 2” — at the
start of the 1990s.