Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin endorsed comments on social media demanding that Donald Trump’s cameo following the film be digitally removed and replaced with an older version of Culkin himself.
Culkin replied to a tweet that asked for “petition to digitally replace trump in ‘home alone 2’ by 40-year-old macaulay culkin” with the only word: “Sold”. Culkin then followed by answering “Bravo” for another tweet that contained a comic edition of Trump replaced by an empty space.
Macaulay Culkin
(@IncredibleCulk)Sold.
Trump appears briefly in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York when Culkin, like his hero Kevin, asks him for directions to the lobby of the Plaza hotel, which Trump owned at the time. In an interview with Insider in December 2020, film director Chris Columbus said Trump “intimidated his way into the film”, insisting that he got a role in the film in exchange for allowing filming to take place at the hotel.
Columbus added that Trump’s cameo was a popular move: “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. It is a time for the public. ‘”
A change.org petition to replace Trump with Joe Biden had 189 signatures at the time of publication.