Fox “news” anchors lie about how Trump got cut from Home Alone 2 in Canada

Written by Eric Kleefeld

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Yes, it has come to this.

Some Fox “news” anchors are lying about why Canada’s national broadcaster aired the 1992 movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York without President Donald Trump’s brief cameo.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation gave an official explanation that the edit was made back in 2014, when the network first acquired the license for the movie, and was just one of many cuts. The total edits added up to 8 minutes, in order to make room for commercials.

But on the December 27, 2019, edition of Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, co-anchors Leland Vittert and Molly Line sarcastically cast doubt on the CBC’s official explanation.

From the December 27, 2019, edition of Fox News’ America’s Newsroom

LELAND VITTER (CO-ANCHOR): That's President Trump's cameo in Home Alone 2, released November of 1992. Recently, a Canadian broadcaster cut his scene from the movie. The president reacted on Twitter, writing, “The movie will never be the same! (just kidding),” and, “I guess Justin T,” meaning the prime minister of Canada, “doesn't much like my making him pay up on NATO or Trade!” This sort of became a thing and blew up on social media over the past couple of days. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation says it has nothing to do with President Trump. they cut the scene for time, long before he was president.

MOLLY LINE (CO-ANCHOR): Right, just that scene, that oh-so-long scene.

VITTER: Yeah, what a coincidence.

(Side note: The film was edited for Canadian TV not only before Trump became a candidate for president, but also before Justin Trudeau was elected prime minister, both of which occurred in 2015.)

The day before, on Fox & Friends, Fox’s chief national correspondent and soon-to-be Fox News anchor Ed Henry also asserted that Trump’s cameo was “the one part” that got cut from the movie, mocking the idea that this would have been enough for commercial time. “But how bad is your Trump derangement syndrome,” Henry asked, “for you to cut that out of a happy movie like that?”