New York Post

Ran up $7K tab on Don

- Nicki Gostin

Daniel Stern managed to pull one over on Donald Trump while filming “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” running up a $7,000 bar tab after the future president offered to pay for his drinks.

The actor, now 66, recounts the cheeky tale in his memoir, “Home and Alone,” out Tuesday.

At the time, Trump owned Manhattan’s iconic Plaza Hotel, which played an important location in the 1992 movie.

“Donald ended up doing a cameo, but his real contributi­on was letting us film there, lending the luster of the Plaza to the movie,” Stern writes.

He recounts how, one night during filming, he and a couple of movie crew members were enjoying a drink at the hotel’s famed Oak Room, when Trump and his then wife, the late Ivana Trump, waltzed in, “waving to the guests and wanting to have his picture taken.”

“Donald spotted us and proclaimed so everyone could hear that he would be picking up the tab at our table,” Stern writes, noting that the group lifted their glasses in appreciati­on as Trump departed, “feeling like the host-with-the-most.”

Given carte blanche, Stern writes that he and his buddies then began to drink “until there was no more booze left in that bar” and generously bought “round after round of drinks for the entire bar.”

The group, he says, stayed until closing time: 4 a.m.

The “City Slickers” co-star says that, to this day, he and one of his drinking buddies disagree on how much the final tab was, with Stern estimating that it was “at least seven thousand dollars.”

“We still feel really good about that,” he writes.

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