Ottawa: Canada's national broadcaster CBC has defended deleting a scene featuring US President Donald Trump from the 1992 film "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York", said it had been trimmed to make way for commercials.
In a statement on Thursday, CBC spokesman Chuck Thompson said the edits on the eight minutes of the 120-minute film were made in 2014, before Trump was elected as President, and were not politically motivated.
In the uncut version, Trump is briefly seen in a scene at New York's Plaza Hotel when Macaulay Culkin's character Kevin asks him for directions.
Trump was the hotel's owner at the time.
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The edited film was shown by CBC earlier this month prompting criticism from Trump's supporters.
His son Donald Trump Jr tweeted a link to a story on Thursday that called the edit pathetic.
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‘Pathetic’: Canada’s CBC under fire when Trump’s cameo in ‘Home Alone 2’ disappears from Christmas broadcast https://t.co/zJUij9qrLe
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">‘Pathetic’: Canada’s CBC under fire when Trump’s cameo in ‘Home Alone 2’ disappears from Christmas broadcast https://t.co/zJUij9qrLe
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 26, 2019‘Pathetic’: Canada’s CBC under fire when Trump’s cameo in ‘Home Alone 2’ disappears from Christmas broadcast https://t.co/zJUij9qrLe
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 26, 2019
On Thursday night, President Trump tweeted that "the movie will never be the same! (just kidding)".
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The movie will never be the same! (just kidding) https://t.co/FogquK1ei7
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">The movie will never be the same! (just kidding) https://t.co/FogquK1ei7
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2019The movie will never be the same! (just kidding) https://t.co/FogquK1ei7
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2019
In a reference to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and well-documented disagreements between the two leaders on major policy issues, Trump added, "I guess Justin T doesn't much like my making him pay up on Nato or trade."
During a video conference call to US troops overseas on Christmas Eve, the President had described the movie as a big Christmas hit.
Trump has made several cameo appearances in films including "Zoolander" and "Ghosts Can't Do It".
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