Trump fans lose their minds over him getting cut from ‘Home Alone 2’

Trump fans lose their minds over him getting cut from ‘Home Alone 2’

December 29, 2019 Off By WhoThatCelebsRS

Its only fitting that the final scene of 2019 would feature ginned-up outrage and a bizarre conspiracy theory. Fans ofHome Alone 2: Lost in New Yorkand President Donald Trump have managed to accomplish both in one fell swoop.

For reasons that are not entirely clear, they believe that Trumps cameo in the 1992 flick was cut by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for nefarious or political reasons.

Movies are edited for length and content all the time, so the loss of a few seconds of a celebritys vanity appearance onscreen ordinarily doesnt warrant much notice. This particular scene, in which Trump gives Macaulay Culkin directions at the Plaza Hotel, doesnt move the plot or develop a character, so its a logical choice to cut.

But in 2019, no news cycle is complete without a Trump-centric controversy. So, once people started tweeting their displeasure over not getting to spend seven seconds gazing upon the president, a scandal was born.

Fox & Friendsratcheted up the anger on their Thursday morning show when hosts reportedly referred to the scene getting cut as censorship and evidence of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted an article that called it pathetic and went on a lengthy diatribe on Instagram.

His dad later weighed in with a presumably joking tweet accusing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of making the CBC delete the scene.

And then it was off to the races.

Angry Trump fans caused such a ruckus that the CBC eventually clarified that, in fact, the scene was originally cut in 2014, well before Trump even launched his presidential campaign (but well into his racist birther attacks on President Barack Obama). Trudeau, for his bit part, declined to comment.

From his personal account, White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere retweeted aquote tweetthat included Jack Posobiecs nonsensical comment, Watch how they cut Trump out ofHome Alone. This is1984level.

Andy Ngo said Trump was censored. Charlie Kirkcalled it shameful and blamed hate from the left for the omission. Even though the movie has been airing in this form for years, Turning Point USAs Benny Johnson seemed to believe that the scene was removed after Trump mentioned the movie in a Christmas Eve teleconference with troops on Dec. 24.

Such complaints were met with exasperation and amusement.

Ken Olin tweeted, As a director I have to confess that theres nothing more annoying and frankly pathetic than a bit player, especially a mediocre talent, confronting me and whining about being cut from a piece. Im always like, dude get a life!’

An enterprising video editor even altered the scene by superimposing the Trump baby blimp over him.

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