Director Chris Columbus revealed that he wants to cut President Donald Trump’s cameo from Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, saying it’s become a “curse” on the film. In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle Monday, Columbus said that Trump’s seven-second cameo in the 1992 hit movie has “become an albatross for me. I just wish it was gone.” But “if I cut it, I’ll probably be sent out of the country. I’ll be considered sort of not fit to live in the United States, so I’ll have to go back to Italy or something,” Columbus, who has Italian heritage, said jokingly. In 2020, Columbus toldBusiness Insider that Trump would only let the crew film in the Plaza Hotel, which he owned at the time, if they gave him a cameo in the film. Though the cameo was well received by audiences at the time, Columbus said that Trump “did bully his way into the movie.” Trump denied these claims in 2023, saying on Truth Social how he was “very busy, and didn’t want to do it,” but Columbus “(what was his real name?)” was “persistent,” adding, “Just another Hollywood guy from the past looking for a quick fix of Trump publicity for himself!” The film ended up being a huge success, with Columbus going on to direct the first two Harry Potter films and produce Robert Eggers’ 2024 remake of Nosferatu.
