Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar mocked President Trump for blaming his Canadian counterpart for his cameo scene in Home Alone 2 being deleted from a broadcast in Canada.
“We have a president that literally blames everyone in the world, and we have not talked about this enough,” Klobuchar said on the stage Friday night at the eighth Democratic presidential debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. The debate is the final one before the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.
Klobuchar criticized Trump scrapping a trade agreement with Canada and Mexico to negotiate the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which was signed into law last month, before bringing up the 1992 film.
“He blames Barack Obama for everything that goes wrong. He blames his Federal Reserve chair that he appointed himself. He blames the king of Denmark. Who does that?” Klobuchar said. “He blames the prime minister of Canada for, he claims, cutting him out of the Canadian version of Home Alone 2. Who does that? That’s what Donald Trump does.”
The state-run Canadian Broadcasting Corporation aired a Trumpless version of the Christmas classic last year that removed the president’s short appearance alongside star Macaulay Culkin. In the four-minute scene, Culkin wanders into Trump Tower New York before bumping into Trump and asking, “Where’s the lobby?” Trump replies, “Down the hall and to the left,” and Culkin says, “Thanks.”
A representative from the CBC said the Home Alone 2: Lost in New York broadcast was cut short “to allow for commercial time within the format.”
The day after Christmas, Trump blamed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his scene being cut. “I guess Justin T doesn’t much like my making him pay up on NATO or Trade!” Trump tweeted. “The movie will never be the same! (just kidding),” he added in another tweet.
