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The director of Home Alone 2 has said he would like to cut President Trump’s iconic cameo from the film.
In an interview with The San Francisco Chronicle, Columbis said it has “become this curse” and he would like to see it gone.
He explained:
We screened the film in Chicago, and when that moment came onscreen the audience went crazy. They cheered and they cheered and they thought it was hilarious. I think I know a lot about comedy, but I don’t, obviously, because I never thought that was going to be considered hilarious.
Years later, it’s become this curse. It’s become this thing that I wish it was not there. What’s going through this guy’s mind?
He said I was lying. I’m not lying. He said I begged him to be in the movie, but there’s no world I would ever beg a non-actor to be in a movie. But we were desperate to get the Plaza Hotel.
But it’s there. It’s become an albatross for me. I just wish it was gone.”
In the famous clip, Macaulay Culkin asks Trump for directions in New York’s famed Plaza Hotel that he owned at the time.
However, Columbus falsely claimed that cutting the clip would mean he would be deported from the country in which he is a citizen.
“I can’t cut it,” he explained. “If I cut it, I’ll probably be sent out of the country.
”I’ll be considered sort of not fit to live in the United States, so I’ll have to go back to Italy or something.”
Posting on Truth Social back in 2023, Trump said that Columbus had “begged” him to be in the movie.
I was very busy, and didn’t want to do it. They were very nice, but above all, persistent. I agreed, and the rest is history!
That little cameo took off like a rocket, and the movie was a big success, and still is, especially around Christmas time. People call me whenever it is aired.
Now, however, 30 years later, Columbus (what was his real name?) put out a statement that I bullied myself into the movie.
Nothing could be further from the truth. That cameo helped make the movie a success … Just another Hollywood guy from the past looking for a quick fix of Trump publicity for himself!
Fortunately for fans of the Home Alone franchise, Trump’s iconic cameo is staying put for now.
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