President Trump faulted Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after his short appearance in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York was cut during an airing in Canada.
“I guess Justin T doesn’t much like my making him pay up on NATO or Trade!” Trump tweeted Thursday.
I guess Justin T doesn’t much like my making him pay up on NATO or Trade! https://t.co/sndS7YvIGR
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2019
“The movie will never be the same! (just kidding),” he said in another tweet.
The movie will never be the same! (just kidding) https://t.co/FogquK1ei7
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2019
State-run Canadian Broadcasting Corporation aired a Trumpless version of the 1992 Christmas film but said it was not politically motivated.
“The scene with Donald Trump was one of several that were cut from the movie as none of them were integral to the plot. These edits were done in 2014, when we first acquired the film and before Mr. Trump was elected president,” Chuck Thompson, a spokesman for the CBC, said.
Thompson said a total of eight minutes was trimmed from the film.
In the brief scene in which Trump appears, star Macaulay Culkin wanders into the Plaza Hotel in 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.”
Trump mentioned his role in the film while speaking with American troops stationed overseas via a video conference on Christmas Eve.
“A lot of people mention it every year, especially around Christmas,” Trump said. “They say — especially young kids — they say, ‘I just saw you on the movie.’ They don’t see me on television as they do in the movie. But it’s been a good movie, and I was a little younger, to put it mildly. And it was an honor to do it.”
Recently, Trump and Trudeau hit a rocky patch in their relationship. Earlier this month, Trump called Trudeau “two-faced” after the prime minister was caught on video mocking Trump’s press conferences.
