Did Donald Trump really appear in Home Alone 2? Here’s what happened

On social media platform X, people shared snaps of a scene, sparking discussions about a possible cameo appearance by Trump.

The 1992 film ‘Home Alone 2: Lost in New York’ remains a holiday-favorite to this day. Now, one brief moment in the movie has sparked curiosity and online reactions: a cameo appearance by Donald Trump.

On social media platform X, people shared snaps of a scene. “Home Alone 2 star Donald J. Trump has been redacted from the movie,” wrote one user, a possible joke on the Epstein file releases. “Did you know Donald Trump has acted in a movie????” posted another.

The snaps shared are from a scene inside New York’s Plaza Hotel, which was owned by Trump at the time of filming. Details about how and why the cameo happened have been discussed in interviews and media coverage over the years.

So did Trump appear in the movie?

Yes. Donald Trump appears briefly in the film, during the Plaza Hotel scene. In the scene, 10-year-old Kevin McCallister, played by Macaulay Culkin, asks Trump for directions to the hotel lobby. Trump points him down the hall and to the left before Kevin walks away.

Director Chris Columbus has explained that the cameo was not initially planned.

According to interviews with the director, Trump requested to appear in the film when the crew arranged to shoot inside the Plaza Hotel, which he owned. Columbus told Business Insider in 2020 that Trump “did bully” his way into the movie, and the production agreed to the cameo in exchange for permission to film in the hotel.