Lost in New York" director Chris Columbus called President Donald Trump's cameo in the film a "curse" that has followed him decades later.

Chris Columbus called Donald Trump's cameo in "Home Alone 2" a curse and joked that if he cut the scene now, Trump would probably have him deported. The director told the Chronicle that the moment in which the real estate tycoon gives directions to lost tyke Macaulay Culkin at the Plaza Hotel is "an albatross" and that he wishes "it was gone.

"He said I begged him to be in the movie, but there's no world I would ever beg a non-actor to be in a movie," the helmer added of the president's brief appearance in the holiday film.