Culkin played Kevin McAllister, who separated from his family and ended up in New York. At one point, Kevin runs into Trump at the Plaza Hotel. He asks Trump for directions to the hotel lobby and Trump responds casually, pointing him in the right direction.
Some fans of the film want to remove Trump from that scene – and a Twitter user did just that.
Another Twitter user proposed creating a “petition to digitally replace the trump in ‘home alone 2’ by 40-year-old macaulay culkin”.
“Home Alone 2 is stained. It has a racist stain in the shape of Donald J Trump,” wrote the petitioner. “I ask that he be removed from the film and replaced by Joe Biden.”
It’s not the first time Trump has cut from ‘Home Alone 2’
In 2019, CBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. showed the film without Trump’s participation, hours after the president expressed to the foreign military how honored he was to be in “one of the biggest” Christmas hits.
“The scene with Donald Trump was one of several that were cut from the film because none of them were an integral part of the plot,” the statement said. “These edits were made in 2014, when we acquired the film for the first time and before Mr. Trump was elected president.”
The film’s director says Trump forced his entry into the film
“Trump said OK. We paid the fee, but he also said, ‘The only way for you to use the Plaza is if I’m in the movie,'” said Columbus. “So we agreed to put it in the movie, and when we first showed it, the strangest thing happened: people applauded when Trump appeared on the screen. So I said to my editor: ‘Leave it in the movie. a moment for the audience. ‘But he bullied his way into the film. “