Should Donald Trump be cut off from mom, I still missed the plane? Chris Columbus is for!

“It has become my ball, my burden to wear … I would like it so much that it disappears from the film!” The filmmaker no longer assumes this cult cam at all of the current American president.

This is undoubtedly the most famous appearance of Donald Trump in the cinema. Not at all president of America and still far from any political consideration, Donald Trump was still only a vaguely famous businessman when he played a small fun role in the face of Macaulay Culkin In Mom, I still missed the planein 1992.

But 30 years later, the director Chris Columbus no longer assumes at all. Faced with the start of the second term at the very least controversial of the current leader of the United States, the filmmaker entrusted to the San Francisco Chronicle that he would like to be able to erase this seven -second cameo, in the Hall of Plaza Hotel, from the rest of Mom, I missed the plane. A scene that Columbus describes today as “a curse “. Just that!

“It has become my ball, a burden to wear … I would like it so much that it disappears from the film!”

With a lot of irony, the 66 -year -old director adds in the process:

“But I cannot cut it. If I do it, I will probably be expelled from the country. We will say that I do not deserve to live in the United States. I will have to go back to Italy or something like …”

As a reminder, in the film, the young Kevin McCallister (embodied by Macaulay Culkin) Landbooks and lands alone in New York instead of joining his family in Miami for Christmas. He goes to the Plaza Hotel, owned by Donald Trump at the time, and simply asked him for his way.

This cameo is not trivial. In an interview given to Business Insider In 2020, Columbus had already revealed that Trump had established himself in the casting: “We had paid to shoot at Plaza, but he said, ‘You can only use the hotel if I am in the film!’ We accepted, and during the first screening, something strange happened: the public applauded when Trump appeared on the screen.

Today, the filmmaker seems to have changed his look at this cult scene … become so embarrassing in 2025.