On Thursday word went viral that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation had removed President Donald Trump from a broadcast of the classic 1992 film “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.”
Because of the CBC’s demonstrated left-wing bias, as well as the known facts concerning the omission — namely that the CBC has reportedly been removing Trump from the annual broadcast since at least 2015 — conservatives assumed Trump’s omission was rooted in politics.
This belief triggered outrage, including from the president’s son Donald Trump Jr., who retweeted BizPac Review’s coverage of the emerging “scandal,” if you will:
‘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
Hours later, around 7:00 pm EST, the president himself got in on the action by tweeting Florida news station WTVT’s report on the matter and adding his own biting criticism.
“I guess Justin T doesn’t much like my making him pay up on NATO or Trade!” he wrote.
The suggestion was that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had played a role in forcing the president’s removal from “Home Alone 2.”
However, the “just kidding” tweet he posted moments later suggests he was just playing around.
“The movie will never be the same! (just kidding),” he added.
Look:
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) https://t.co/FogquK1ei7
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2019
As someone with a sense of humor — which, oddly enough, seems to be in short supply on the left — it’s possible he really doesn’t care about the omission that much, especially given the latest facts surrounding this debacle.
As reported by BPR on Thursday, complaints about Trump’s omission have been circulating on social media since 2015. This led some to assume that the CBC cut the president from “Home Alone 2” after he announced his candidacy for office.
But the left-wing Canadian network has pushed back on this idea.
“As is often the case with features adapted for television, Home Alone 2 was edited to allow for commercial time within the format,” a spokesperson originally said in a statement to ComicBook.com on Christmas Day.
And then in an updated statement posted to Twitter on Thursday, the CBC claimed the edits were made in 2014, a year before the president announced his candidacy.
Look:
CBC responds to criticism that short scene featuring Donald Trump was deleted from movie Home Alone 2, which aired recently. Spokesperson says ‘several’ cuts made for time. ‘These edits were done in 2014 when we first acquired the film and before Mr. Trump was elected president.’
— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) December 26, 2019
More @cbcnews CBC edit of Trump scene from Home Alone 2 was done in 2014. https://t.co/GJpbqqj6Oq
— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) December 26, 2019
“These edits were done in 2014, when we first acquired the film and before Mr. Trump was elected president,” the CBC spokesperson said, adding that a total of eight minutes were removed from the film.
While there appears to be no way to verify the former claim, the latter one can easily be corroborated thanks to old tweets on Twitter showing viewers complaining about other omissions from the 1992 classic, as first reported by CNN’s Daniel Dale:
Here are some non-Trump things viewers have complained about CBC cutting out of Home Alone over the years: “Kevin going swimming”; “THE TURTLE DOVE EXCHANGE”; “the homeless guy’s scene”; “John Candy’s lines regarding the funeral home.”
This concludes my Home Alone reporting. pic.twitter.com/QkTfKbwzf2
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 27, 2019
@CBC Nice editing of the Home Alone movie tonight. I guess you feel John Candy’s lines regarding the funeral home needed big boy pants and weren’t for our virgin ears. SMH Who is running that dump these days? Thanks a lot. ?
— Mike (@mike_maric) December 10, 2018
@CBCMontreal YOU CUT OUT THE TURTLE DOVE EXCHANGE FROM HOME ALONE 2
NOW MY NIECE IS ANGRY! #CBC #homealone2 #edit #commercial— Dan Ramos (@danramoscomedy) December 25, 2015
@CBCMontreal Cutting out the homeless guy’s scene in Home Alone 2 “HEY! WATCH IT KID! AAAHAHAHA!” was the worst idea, EVER #christmas #cbc
— Dan Ramos (@danramoscomedy) December 25, 2014
Okay CBC. What’s with the cuts in Home Alone 2? Kevin exploring New York is cut out and Kevin going swimming got cut as well.
What’s up with that? This sort of behaviour makes me mad, either air the movie without cuts or don’t air it at all.
— Emmanuel Bergeron (@GUCFan) December 15, 2019
Is this “scandal” therefore much ado about nothing? It appears so, though, in fairness to those who assumed the worst, the CBC does seem to boast a disturbing left-wing bias.
Two years ago, the network hired an actor to portray a Trump supporter selling white power t-shirts on the streets. No joke!
Watch:
That was a blatant smear of the president and his supporters, many of whom happen to be non-white minorities. There’s simply no excuse for the stunt, though according to the CBC, there is a valid excuse for Trump’s omission from “Home Alone 2” …
Assuming you believe the network’s claim, that is. Do you?
Some certainly don’t:
Lying liars lying all the time: CBC
— Rob ? ? (@2old4thissht) December 26, 2019
You removed 3 seconds of the movie ‘to save time.’ Quit lying
— Nah, I dont think I will (@CDNpatriot87) December 26, 2019
CBC lying again.
— cattyfatcat (@sircrackameow) December 26, 2019
Stop lying. Your staff hate trump because he crushes your narrative. We Canadians are getting SICK AND TIRED OF THIS! Stop it. #StopTheBias #Fakenews #DefundCBC Sick of my tax dollars going to BS Trump Derangement.
— Justin Castro ?????? (@gigabytexxl) December 26, 2019
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