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"Welcome to the liberal government-controlled media," another tweeted to the network. The seven-second cameo was a small snippet of the eight minutes that were trimmed out of the film, the CBC said. "The movie will never be the same! ," he tweeted after fans and his oldest son expressed their displeasure with the change. However, the reason for his absence does not seem to be anything sinister, with time constraints the culprit for the cutting.
Home Alone director Chris Columbus has revealed that Donald Trump “bullied” his way into a cameo in the film’s sequel, Lost In New York. Trump said he was honored to be in ‘Home Alone 2.’ The same day, Canadian TV broadcast the movie without his cameo. "A Candadian TV Channel cut President Trump out of their Christmas airing of Home Alone 2," he wrote. "He just mentioned the movie in a teleconference with US troops on Christmas Eve. Trump Derangement Syndrome is real." Conservative commentators and Trump supporters are outraged by the two second cameo being cut.
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House of Representatives impeaching Trump for “incitement of insurrection” (tied to January 6’s violent Capitol riot by his supporters). The president himself then weighed in on Twitter, linking the edit to the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau. Charlie Kirk, of the conservative organisation Turning Point USA, claimed the scene was cut “because it humanizes a man the left loves to dehumanize”. Canada’s national broadcaster has riled Donald Trump’s conservative base by airing Christmas movie favourite Home Alone 2 without a scene involving the president. It is common knowledge that if you filmed in a property owned by Trump at the time, you had to give him a role in the project. Later that day, a Canadian TV broadcast of the film was missing his cameo.
The 1992 comedy film follows Kevin as he’s once again separated from his family on Christmas vacation and ends up in New York City. In one scene, Kevin winds up at the Plaza Hotel, where he asks Trump — who owned the hotel at the time — for directions to the lobby. This scene was cut entirely when CBC aired the movie this holiday season. Canadian television network CBC aired Home Alone 2 during the holiday season and they cut out Donald Trump's very brief appearance in the film.
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Home Alone director Chris Columbus says that Donald Trump “bullied” his way into his cameo role in the film’s 1992 sequel, reports Insider. "A lot of people mention it every year, especially around Christmas. They say - especially young kids - they say, 'I just saw you on the movie.' They don't see me on television as they do in the movie. And Donald Trump did make the final cut of the hit film, which featured a scene in the Plaza Hotel which he owned. In one of the 1992 film’s scenes, star Macauley Culkin walks through the Plaza Hotel, which was owned by Trump at the time, and asks the Donald himself for directions to the lobby.
Before taking to Twitter himself, President Trump praised the movie during a video conference call to overseas U.S. troops Tuesday. The edit sparked both praise and outrage on Twitter from users who perceived it as politically charged. The Canadian Broadcasting Company says it removed Trump’s brief cameo – and eight minutes of the film in total – in 2014 to make room for commercials. ‘We shot at the Plaza Hotel, which at the time was run by Trump,’ he told us. “Fingers crossed they don’t cut your dad’s part in ‘Ghosts Can’t Do It,'” Hamill gleefully tweeted Thursday.
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The film aired without Trump’s cameo on CBC earlier this month, but the edit was later picked up by right-wing news outlets, sparking fury among the president’s supporters. "As is often the case with features adapted for television, 'Home Alone 2' was edited to allow for commercial time within the format," CBC told the outlet. Viewers took to social media with mixed criticism days ahead of Christmas as they recognized the American president's noticeable absence from the 1992 film, Comicbook.com reported. In the scene, Trump tells the film's protagonist Kevin McCallister that the lobby of the Plaza Hotel, which he owned at the time, is "down the hall and to the left." Donald Trump had a short cameo in Home Alone 2, but the Canadian national broadcaster said it cut it out to save time, prompting a backlash from Trump supporters.
Matt Damon said there have been many instances Trump was filmed in a scene with stars before it would be later edited out by directors. Columbus told Insider the production dealt with Trump because, at the time of filming Home Alone 2, he owned the Plaza Hotel. Trump demands to be written into major productions as a special payment for when films or TV shows are shot on his properties. However, when Canadian broadcaster CBC aired the film in 2019, Trump’s star turn was nowhere to be found. Lest you think there was a conspiracy afoot, the CBC clarified in a Thursday tweet that “several” cuts had been made, and all the editing took place in 2014, long before Trump was president.
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The president added that the movie went on to become "one of the biggest" Christmas hits. One person on Twitter pointed out that the broadcast on CBC was Trump-free back in 2015. “The scene with Donald Trump was one of several that were cut from the movie as none of them were integral to the plot. He crosses paths with Trump in the Plaza Hotel and asks him for directions to the hotel’s lobby. "Why is everyone surprised about Trump being edited out of Home Alone? The ruling class wants his epic 2016 erased, and him canceled from the 2020 election. This is exactly how communists get things done," The Bradford File's Twitter account wrote. The New York business magnate has appeared in TV shows, movies, and even professional wrestling, writes Cinema Blend.
Home Alone 2 came out in 1992 and made the Plaza even more famous thanks to the iconic scene where Kevin meets Trump in the lobby. HOME Alone is one of the most iconic Christmas movies of all time. They’re so triggered by him that they had to edit him out of the film. Of course, 20th Century Studios has not revealed any plans to do any of these edits, and at the time of writing the studio has not replied to Newsweek's request for comment. It's true that a scene featuring Donald Trump did not appear in the CBC's 2019 Christmas season broadcast of "Home Alone 2." According to Comicbook.com, the CBC provided a reason for the removal, claiming the edit was "to allow for commercial time within the format."
The decision to omit Donald Trump's scene in "Home Alone 2" was not made December 2019. This version of "Home Alone 2" has been airing on the CBC since 2014. The network said that the scene was cut for time, not political reasons. “As is often the case with features adapted for television, Home Alone 2 was edited to allow for commercial time within the format,” CBC told ComicBook.com. The CBC version of the film caught the attention of Donald Trump Jr., who tweetedan article Thursday morning about the scene being cut. On Christmas Eve, apparently before he was aware of the edited broadcast, Trump told US service members it was a “very big hit” and that it was an honour to be in the film.
In the scene, McCauley Culkin's character, Kevin, asks Trump for directions to the plaza hotel lobby. A spokesman for the CBC, Chuck Thompson, confirmed the scene had been cut from the version of the 1992 film that aired in Canada on Christmas Eve, but said the decision was not political. He noted that Trump has been missing from the Canadian broadcaster's version of the film since before he was even a presidential candidate. "It was an honor to do it. And it turned out to be a very big hit, obviously. It’s a big Christmas hit — one of the biggest. So it’s an honor to be involved in something like that. You always like to see success."
That included Donald Jr, who on Friday shared a link to a news article suggesting the edit was an example of “virulent left wing media bias”. Trump, a prominent media figure at the time, appeared in the 1992 film when Macauley Culkin’s character, Kevin, was separated from his parents and found himself in New York’s Plaza Hotel. Trump, one of New York’s most prominent businessmen at the time, appears on screen for a few seconds, telling Kevin the hotel lobby is “down the hall and to the left”. Still, many Twitter users weren’t letting the president off easy after his scene was cut. Star Wars actor Mark Hamill responded to Trump Jr’s criticism of the edit by noting that in 1990, Trump won a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor for his role in the critically panned film Ghosts Can’t Do It. “As is often the case with features adapted for television, ‘Home Alone 2’ was edited to allow for commercial time within the format,” a network spokesperson told ComicBook.com.
Some Twitter users suspect a conspiracy, but the CBC says Trump's scene was cut long before he was president. Trump himself, meanwhile, spoke about the film role in a December video call to U.S. troops. He said, Well I'm in Home Alone 2...it was an honor to do it...And it turned out to be a very big hit, obviously..." The Home Alone actor responded to a call on Twitter for 20th Century Studios, the distributor of the film franchise, to cut out Trump's cameo scene from that movie's sequel Lost in New York. Donald Trump's one-time co-star Macaulay Culkin is the latest person to attack the president following his bans from multiple social media platforms and his second impeachment by the House of Representatives. The CBC cut a scene featuring Donald Trump from its December 2019 broadcast of the movie "Home Alone 2" for political reasons.
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