Note to governments of other countries: you want to piss off Donald Trump and his supporters? Don’t starve your people or remove free and fair elections or commit genocide… just cut his orange ass out of movies!
The Canadian Broadcasting Company aired the Christmas classic (well, the mediocre sequel to a Christmas classic) Home Alone 2: Lost In New York on December 25 and did something even more controversial than declaring Home Alone 3 was the best one (something people are legit doing now for some reason).
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No, the CBC edited their presentation of the film by cutting out the cameo by Trump!
For those who aren’t familiar with the film, Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) accidentally gets on the wrong plane and ends up in New York all by himself. Kevin decides to live it up with a room at the Plaza hotel, and when he arrives at the fancy hotel, he asks a stranger for directions to the lobby — and the man is revealed to be none other than the owner of the hotel at the time, one Donald J. Trump, who famously says:
“Down the hall and to the left.”
Anyway, that’s the whole scene. You can watch it in less than 40 seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1WngHOFYVQ&feature=emb_logo
The question is, why edit it out if not making an anti-Trump political statement?
That’s what tons of angry Trump supporters demanded afterward, including the President’s biggest fan/co-conspirator, Donald Trump Jr. who wrote on Instagram:
“Absolutely pathetic. The liberal media like @cbc is where Trump Derangement Syndrome manifests itself fully. Imagine being so pathetic in your quest to attain some BS level of wokeness that you need to cut out a scene that is probably one of the most famous cameos of the era? Imagine being so “triggered” that you can’t even leave a Christmas movie alone without editing.”
For those who haven’t heard it before, “Trump Derangement Syndrome” is what his supporters call the “inexplicable” response people with moral compasses have to the rise in power of leaders like Donald Trump. You know, the type of leaders who have to shut down their “nonprofit” because they were stealing from charity. The type who come to power by fomenting racism and xenophobia. The type who… well, you get it.
As we know, Trump and Canadian President Justin Trudeau have a very contentious relationship. (Though you could say that about the leader of any country that is considered to be our ally at this point.)
But is that really why the CBC deleted Trump from the movie? So viewers looking for holiday cheer wouldn’t have to be reminded of the ever more dystopian government at their southern border? Did they pull an All The Money In The World and erase him from the movie entirely?
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ComicBook.com reached out to ask what was up with the decision, and the CBC responded:
“As is often the case with features adapted for television, Home Alone 2 was edited to allow for commercial time within the format.”
Again, Trump’s entire moment lasts less than 10 seconds. So not really buying this was an edit for time.
We’re guessing it was more of an editing for content decision.
BTW, The Donald himself recently commented on his cameo. On Christmas Eve, in a conference call to US troops, one asked if the sequel was his favorite holiday movie. He responded:
“Well I’m in Home Alone 2. 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. But it’s been a good movie and I was a little younger, to put it mildly. And 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.”
Speaking of success, here’s a fun fact for ya: Home Alone 2 came out in November 1992 — and that same month Trump was giving up tons of his ownership shares in the Plaza to the bank to pay off debts he had accrued in a bankruptcy filing. And after seven years of ownership he ended up selling the whole thing in 1995 to a Saudi prince for $65 less than he paid for it. In 2018 money, that translates to a $292 million loss.
Yep, you always like to see success.
[Image via Dinendra Haria/WENN/Instar/20th Century Fox/YouTube.]
