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The Canadian broadcaster said it removed the cameo for the sake of time five years ago. President Trump, his son and some supporters suggested the omission was politically motivated.
Donald J. Trump in the 1992 film “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.”
Credit...
20th Century Fox
Dec. 27, 2019
MONTREAL — Could Canada’s relations with the United States have taken a turn for the worse after its leading public broadcaster cut a seconds-long scene of President Trump from
“Home Alone 2: Lost in New York?”
Canadians were momentarily pondering that unlikely question over the Christmas holidays after the CBC broadcast the 1992 film without a cameo by Mr. Trump. In the scene, the character
Kevin McCallister
, played by
Macaulay Culkin,
asks Mr. Trump how to get to the lobby of New York’s ornate Plaza Hotel (which Mr. Trump owned at the time).
The CBC said the cut had been made for time’s sake, and before Mr. Trump’s political career, but as the omission drew media attention, Mr. Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr.
posted
about it on Thursday on his Instagram account, calling the alteration “absolutely pathetic” and saying it proved that the news media “really are the enemy of the people.”
That evening, President Trump himself weighed in,
retweeting
an article about the edited version and adding an allusion to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada: “I guess Justin T doesn’t much like my making him pay up on NATO or Trade!”
A few minutes later, Mr. Trump
tweeted
a different headline, reporting claims that the incident was an example of censorship.
But those Canadians worrying that the perceived slight had undermined relations with Canada’s most important ally felt relief on Thursday evening when Mr. Trump injected a note of humor to his commentary. “The movie will never be the same! (just kidding),” he
wrote on Twitter.
On Friday, Mr. Trudeau’s office declined to comment on the incident.
The CBC, for its part, said the scene with Mr. Trump had been cut in 2014, before he
declared his candidacy
for president in 2015, and thus was not politically motivated.
“CBC’s airing of Home Alone 2 was edited for time,” Chuck Thompson, a spokesman for the broadcaster,
wrote on Twitter
. “This happens regularly with films adapted for television. The scene with Donald Trump was one of several that were cut from the movie as none of them were integral to the plot.”
Mr. Trudeau, a progressive known for his advocacy of women’s rights and the fight against climate change, has had a somewhat rocky relationship with Mr. Trump, who last year called him
“very dishonest and weak.”
More recently, he called Mr. Trudeau “two-faced” after the prime minister had been caught on video apparently
gossiping about Mr. Trump
with other world leaders at a NATO reception at Buckingham Palace.
Before the latest brouhaha, Mr. Trump said this week that it had been an honor to be in the film. He mentioned the movie during a video conference call from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida with members of the United States military.
“A lot of people mention it every year, especially around Christmas,’’ he said. “They say, ‘I just saw you.’ Especially young kids, they say, ‘I just saw you on the movie.’ And it turned out to be a very big hit, obviously. It’s a big Christmas hit — one of the biggest. So it’s an honor to be involved in something like that. You always like to see success.”
Some of Mr. Trump’s supporters lashed out at the Canadian broadcaster.
“CBC TV in Canada has cut Donald Trump’s Home Alone 2 cameo out of their broadcast,” Ryan Fournier, the chairman of a pro-Trump student group,
wrote on Twitter
. “They’re so triggered by him that they had to edit him out of the film. Absolutely pathetic.”
On the television program “Fox & Friends,” the co-host Ed Henry accused the CBC of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
“I think they’re actually terrified that people will remember that before he was the new Hitler, he was actually a beloved mainstream cultural figure,” the commentator
Mark Steyn
added on the show. “I think they’re terrified of these little things that will remind people of just how deranged his opponents are.”
But others commended the cut, including George Conway, a lawyer who is a vociferous critic of Mr. Trump and the husband of his adviser
Kellyanne Conway.
“You see, Senators? It’s not that hard,”
he wrote on Twitter
, apparently alluding to Congress’s impeachment proceedings against Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump is expected to face a trial early next year in the Senate, where his acquittal in the Republican-controlled chamber appears likely.
Michael Crowley contributed reporting from West Palm Beach, Fla.
Dan Bilefsky
is a Canada correspondent for The New York Times, based in Montreal. He was previously based in London, Paris and Prague and served as a metropolitan reporter in Queens. He has also worked for The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal.
A version of this article appears in print on
Dec. 28, 2019
, Section B, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: ‘Home Alone 2’ Minus Trump? Cue the Political Indignation
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# The CBC’s Cut of a Scene From ‘Home Alone 2’ Draws the Trumps’ Ire
The Canadian broadcaster said it removed the cameo for the sake of time five years ago. President Trump, his son and some supporters suggested the omission was politically motivated.
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MONTREAL — Could Canada’s relations with the United States have taken a turn for the worse after its leading public broadcaster cut a seconds-long scene of President Trump from “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York?”
Canadians were momentarily pondering that unlikely question over the Christmas holidays after the CBC broadcast the 1992 film without a cameo by Mr. Trump. In the scene, the character [Kevin McCallister](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099785/characters/nm0000346), played by [Macaulay Culkin,](https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/macaulay-culkin) asks Mr. Trump how to get to the lobby of New York’s ornate Plaza Hotel (which Mr. Trump owned at the time).
The CBC said the cut had been made for time’s sake, and before Mr. Trump’s political career, but as the omission drew media attention, Mr. Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. [posted](https://www.instagram.com/p/B6i_nwBFIRj/) about it on Thursday on his Instagram account, calling the alteration “absolutely pathetic” and saying it proved that the news media “really are the enemy of the people.”
That evening, President Trump himself weighed in, [retweeting](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210350571452022784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) an article about the edited version and adding an allusion to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada: “I guess Justin T doesn’t much like my making him pay up on NATO or Trade!”
A few minutes later, Mr. Trump [tweeted](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210351400313638914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) a different headline, reporting claims that the incident was an example of censorship.
But those Canadians worrying that the perceived slight had undermined relations with Canada’s most important ally felt relief on Thursday evening when Mr. Trump injected a note of humor to his commentary. “The movie will never be the same! (just kidding),” he [wrote on Twitter.](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210351400313638914)
On Friday, Mr. Trudeau’s office declined to comment on the incident.
The CBC, for its part, said the scene with Mr. Trump had been cut in 2014, before he [declared his candidacy](https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/06/16/choice-words-from-donald-trump-presidential-candidate/) for president in 2015, and thus was not politically motivated.
“CBC’s airing of Home Alone 2 was edited for time,” Chuck Thompson, a spokesman for the broadcaster, [wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/ChuckTCBC/status/1210266105983324160). “This happens regularly with films adapted for television. The scene with Donald Trump was one of several that were cut from the movie as none of them were integral to the plot.”
Mr. Trudeau, a progressive known for his advocacy of women’s rights and the fight against climate change, has had a somewhat rocky relationship with Mr. Trump, who last year called him [“very dishonest and weak.”](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/world/americas/donald-trump-g7-nafta.html) More recently, he called Mr. Trudeau “two-faced” after the prime minister had been caught on video apparently [gossiping about Mr. Trump](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/world/europe/trump-video-nato.html) with other world leaders at a NATO reception at Buckingham Palace.
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Before the latest brouhaha, Mr. Trump said this week that it had been an honor to be in the film. He mentioned the movie during a video conference call from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida with members of the United States military.
“A lot of people mention it every year, especially around Christmas,’’ he said. “They say, ‘I just saw you.’ Especially young kids, they say, ‘I just saw you on the movie.’ And it turned out to be a very big hit, obviously. It’s a big Christmas hit — one of the biggest. So it’s an honor to be involved in something like that. You always like to see success.”
Some of Mr. Trump’s supporters lashed out at the Canadian broadcaster.
“CBC TV in Canada has cut Donald Trump’s Home Alone 2 cameo out of their broadcast,” Ryan Fournier, the chairman of a pro-Trump student group, [wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/RyanAFournier/status/1210046030877736960). “They’re so triggered by him that they had to edit him out of the film. Absolutely pathetic.”
On the television program “Fox & Friends,” the co-host Ed Henry accused the CBC of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
“I think they’re actually terrified that people will remember that before he was the new Hitler, he was actually a beloved mainstream cultural figure,” the commentator [Mark Steyn](https://www.steynonline.com/) added on the show. “I think they’re terrified of these little things that will remind people of just how deranged his opponents are.”
But others commended the cut, including George Conway, a lawyer who is a vociferous critic of Mr. Trump and the husband of his adviser [Kellyanne Conway.](https://twitter.com/KellyannePolls)
“You see, Senators? It’s not that hard,” [he wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1210237548393615363), apparently alluding to Congress’s impeachment proceedings against Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump is expected to face a trial early next year in the Senate, where his acquittal in the Republican-controlled chamber appears likely.
Michael Crowley contributed reporting from West Palm Beach, Fla.
[Dan Bilefsky](https://www.nytimes.com/by/dan-bilefsky) is a Canada correspondent for The New York Times, based in Montreal. He was previously based in London, Paris and Prague and served as a metropolitan reporter in Queens. He has also worked for The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal.
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The Canadian broadcaster said it removed the cameo for the sake of time five years ago. President Trump, his son and some supporters suggested the omission was politically motivated.

Donald J. Trump in the 1992 film “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.”Credit...20th Century Fox
Dec. 27, 2019
MONTREAL — Could Canada’s relations with the United States have taken a turn for the worse after its leading public broadcaster cut a seconds-long scene of President Trump from “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York?”
Canadians were momentarily pondering that unlikely question over the Christmas holidays after the CBC broadcast the 1992 film without a cameo by Mr. Trump. In the scene, the character [Kevin McCallister](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099785/characters/nm0000346), played by [Macaulay Culkin,](https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/macaulay-culkin) asks Mr. Trump how to get to the lobby of New York’s ornate Plaza Hotel (which Mr. Trump owned at the time).
The CBC said the cut had been made for time’s sake, and before Mr. Trump’s political career, but as the omission drew media attention, Mr. Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. [posted](https://www.instagram.com/p/B6i_nwBFIRj/) about it on Thursday on his Instagram account, calling the alteration “absolutely pathetic” and saying it proved that the news media “really are the enemy of the people.”
That evening, President Trump himself weighed in, [retweeting](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210350571452022784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) an article about the edited version and adding an allusion to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada: “I guess Justin T doesn’t much like my making him pay up on NATO or Trade!”
A few minutes later, Mr. Trump [tweeted](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210351400313638914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) a different headline, reporting claims that the incident was an example of censorship.
But those Canadians worrying that the perceived slight had undermined relations with Canada’s most important ally felt relief on Thursday evening when Mr. Trump injected a note of humor to his commentary. “The movie will never be the same! (just kidding),” he [wrote on Twitter.](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210351400313638914)
On Friday, Mr. Trudeau’s office declined to comment on the incident.
The CBC, for its part, said the scene with Mr. Trump had been cut in 2014, before he [declared his candidacy](https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/06/16/choice-words-from-donald-trump-presidential-candidate/) for president in 2015, and thus was not politically motivated.
“CBC’s airing of Home Alone 2 was edited for time,” Chuck Thompson, a spokesman for the broadcaster, [wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/ChuckTCBC/status/1210266105983324160). “This happens regularly with films adapted for television. The scene with Donald Trump was one of several that were cut from the movie as none of them were integral to the plot.”
Mr. Trudeau, a progressive known for his advocacy of women’s rights and the fight against climate change, has had a somewhat rocky relationship with Mr. Trump, who last year called him [“very dishonest and weak.”](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/world/americas/donald-trump-g7-nafta.html) More recently, he called Mr. Trudeau “two-faced” after the prime minister had been caught on video apparently [gossiping about Mr. Trump](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/world/europe/trump-video-nato.html) with other world leaders at a NATO reception at Buckingham Palace.
Before the latest brouhaha, Mr. Trump said this week that it had been an honor to be in the film. He mentioned the movie during a video conference call from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida with members of the United States military.
“A lot of people mention it every year, especially around Christmas,’’ he said. “They say, ‘I just saw you.’ Especially young kids, they say, ‘I just saw you on the movie.’ And it turned out to be a very big hit, obviously. It’s a big Christmas hit — one of the biggest. So it’s an honor to be involved in something like that. You always like to see success.”
Some of Mr. Trump’s supporters lashed out at the Canadian broadcaster.
“CBC TV in Canada has cut Donald Trump’s Home Alone 2 cameo out of their broadcast,” Ryan Fournier, the chairman of a pro-Trump student group, [wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/RyanAFournier/status/1210046030877736960). “They’re so triggered by him that they had to edit him out of the film. Absolutely pathetic.”
On the television program “Fox & Friends,” the co-host Ed Henry accused the CBC of “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
“I think they’re actually terrified that people will remember that before he was the new Hitler, he was actually a beloved mainstream cultural figure,” the commentator [Mark Steyn](https://www.steynonline.com/) added on the show. “I think they’re terrified of these little things that will remind people of just how deranged his opponents are.”
But others commended the cut, including George Conway, a lawyer who is a vociferous critic of Mr. Trump and the husband of his adviser [Kellyanne Conway.](https://twitter.com/KellyannePolls)
“You see, Senators? It’s not that hard,” [he wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1210237548393615363), apparently alluding to Congress’s impeachment proceedings against Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump is expected to face a trial early next year in the Senate, where his acquittal in the Republican-controlled chamber appears likely.
Michael Crowley contributed reporting from West Palm Beach, Fla.
[Dan Bilefsky](https://www.nytimes.com/by/dan-bilefsky) is a Canada correspondent for The New York Times, based in Montreal. He was previously based in London, Paris and Prague and served as a metropolitan reporter in Queens. He has also worked for The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal.
A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 28, 2019, Section B, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: ‘Home Alone 2’ Minus Trump? Cue the Political Indignation. [Order Reprints](https://nytimes.wrightsmedia.com/) \| [Today’s Paper](https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper) \| [Subscribe](https://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp8HYKU.html?campaignId=48JQY)
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