Donald Trump cut from Canadian broadcast of Home Alone 2, outraging his US fans
- President’s son calls removal of scene ‘pathetic’, while Fox and Friends co-host says move was result of ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’
- Broadcaster CBC says cut was first made in 2014, before Trump announced presidential campaign
US President Donald Trump this week described Home Alone 2: Lost in New York City – a 1992 film in which he makes a cameo appearance – as a “big Christmas hit, one of the biggest” and an “honour to be involved in”.
“A lot of people mention it every year, especially around Christmas,” Trump told US troops in a Christmas Eve teleconference call from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. “They say, ‘I just saw you,’ especially young kids. They say, ‘I just saw you on the movie.’”
But north of the 49th parallel, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp has viewed the president’s seconds-long appearance in the sequel to the 1990 Christmas classic as so unimportant to the film’s plot that it has for several years been cutting it from the version that it broadcasts on Canadian television to fit the time slot.
The omission of the cameo from a CBC broadcast this month was noticed by several viewers, who were quick to label it as politically motivated censorship. Their complaints ricocheted on Thursday on social media and in the right-wing blogosphere.
Donald Trump Jr, the president’s son, tweeted a link to an article describing the cut as “pathetic”. The panel from Fox News’s morning show Fox and Friends also took the matter up.
