NewsBusters blogger P.J. Gladnick complained in a Jan. 1 post:
One sign of Trump Derangement Syndrome is loathing any viewing of pre-politician Donald Trump popping up in old TV or movies. Every cameo could have been used to build Trump’s celebrity, so they are all dreadful sins. This became apparent again when it was discovered CBC in Canada cut out the brief Donald Trump cameo scene in their broadcast of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Stick it to the Bad Orange Man of Baja Canada.
If the CBCÂ thought that such a childish edit of that movie would go unnoticed, they were horribly wrong. The backlash was swift and strong as we shall see, starting with this December 25 report on their antics in ComicBook.Com, “Donald Trump’s Cameo in Home Alone 2 Cut From Canadian Television Broadcast.”
But this doesn’t tell the whole story, since to do so would undermine the premise of Gladnick’s post. As the CBC and others have pointed out, the cut was made, along with eight minutes of other edits for make room for commercials, in 2014 — two years before Trump became president and one year before he even announced his candidacy.
So, apparently, editing for time and commercials is suddenly “childish” in Gladnick’s world.
Gladnick eventually admits this, but then — apparently decided that inventing a conspiracy theory was more important than telling the truth — unilaterally proclaimed that this was a “lame” excuse that was “almost as funny as the movie,” adding:
The problem for the CBC is that they will now be reminded constantly about their little hit and run deletion of that scene on social media.
Imagine how much work today’s television networks will have editing all the Trump cameos out of their reruns. … Good luck, Trump haters.
Gladnick offers no evidence that any media outlet is editing, or has even attempted to edit, Trump out of movies or TV shows.
But then, who is Gladnick to let the truth get in the way of a good, nonexistent conspiracy theory?