The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. faces backlash for editing out President Trump’s cameo in “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”
Chuck Thompson, confirmed the scene had been cut from the version of the 1992 film that aired in Canada on Christmas Eve, but said the decision was not political. He noted that Trump has been missing from the Canadian broadcaster's version of the film since before he was even a presidential candidate.Home Alone 2" was edited for time," Thompson said in a statement.
"A lot of people mention it every year, especially around Christmas. They say, 'I just saw you.' Especially young kids, they say, “I just saw you on the movie.” They don’t see me on television as they — as they do in the movie. But it’s been a good movie. And I was a little bit younger, to put it mildly," Trump said."It was an honor to do it. And it turned out to be a very big hit, obviously. It’s a big Christmas hit — one of the biggest.
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