Moan alone: Trump blames Trudeau as Canada cuts cameo
HIS screen appearance lasts just a few seconds.
But Donald Trump’s cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost In New York is now on the cutting room floor – in Canada, at least.
Yesterday the President said the film will ‘never be the same’ after his brief role was edited out by Canada’s public broadcaster. And he joked that Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau may have been behind the decision by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to remove his scene in the 1992 Christmas comedy.
Mr Trump tweeted: ‘I guess Justin T doesn’t much like my making him pay up on NATO or Trade!’
The President commented after CBC was ridiculed on social media for removing the scene in which the film’s child star, Macauley Culkin, meets Mr Trump.
Culkin mistakenly boards a plane to New York while his family goes for a Christmas holiday in Florida. In the lobby of the Plaza Hotel he runs into Mr Trump and asks: ‘Excuse me, where’s the lobby?’ Mr Trump replies: ‘Down the hall and to the left.’
Supporters claimed on Twitter that CBC was censoring him because of Canada’s fraught relationship with Mr Trump. Mr Trudeau was caught on a hot mic mocking his US counterpart at a Nato summit this month. Mr Trump responded by calling the Canadian ‘two-faced’.
Donald Trump Jr, Mr Trump’s son, called CBC ‘pathetic’ while Anthony Logan, a Trump fan, accused CBC of acting like a socialist government.
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Brad Trost, a former member of the Canadian parliament from the opposition Conservative Party, tweeted: ‘DEFUND. CBC. NOW.’
CBC said in a statement that the decision to edit eight minutes out of Home Alone 2 had nothing to do with politics and was to fit it to the time they had available.
A spokesman said: ‘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.’
It comes as Mr Trump yesterday named the man he believes to be the CIA whistleblower whose complaint led to his impeachment.
He tweeted a link to a newspaper article – which broke the convention of not identifying whistleblowers – naming the officer he believes accused him of trying to get Ukraine to help investigate his Democratic rival.
Twitter users were appalled, with Anne Redmond writing: ‘Because the first impeachment wasn’t enough to remind him to follow the law’. The whistleblower filed his complaint on August 12 claiming that, in a July phone call, Mr Trump pressured the Ukranian president to launch a criminal investigation into leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.