Actor Macaulay Culkin took to Twitter on Wednesday to support digitally removing President Donald Trump's cameo role in "Home Alone 2," which he starred in, The Hill reports.
Sold.
— Macaulay Culkin (@IncredibleCulk) January 13, 2021
The comment came as Donald Trump was on the verge of being impeached a second time by the House of Representatives, which happened later that day, for his alleged role in inciting the Capitol Hill riot.
Trump makes a brief appearance in the film when the main character, Kevin McCallister, asks Trump where the lobby is in New York's Plaza Hotel, which Trump owned at the time of filming. Trump responds "down the hall and to the left" before McCallister walks off. It is one of many movie cameos which featured Trump over the years.
Trump reportedly would only allow his properties to be used for filming if he could secure cameos in the productions.
Shortly after the original tweet, Culkin praised a roughly edited version of the cameo which features McCallister speaking to thin air, although the rough editing preserves Trump's outline. Culkin responded "bravo."
Bravo.
— Macaulay Culkin (@IncredibleCulk) January 13, 2021
Many of the replies on Twitter compared the calls to digitally remove Trump to the use of censorship in the Soviet Union, with some drawing parallels to the infamous removal of Nikolay Yezhov from an image with Stalin after he had fallen out of favour with the ruling party and faced execution. Others, however, suggested that the call was little more than a joke.
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