Hollywood is actively trying to erase images and scenes from classic movies and TV shows.

They even have edited the iconic intro from Star Trek.

And now this prominent filmmaker is desperate to remove Donald Trump from a decades-old movie, saying it’s a ‘curse.’

According to William Shatner, Paramount has edited the beginning of the Star Trek show to be more politically correct.

Destroying classic movies and shows in the name of wokeness 

The original opening of Star Trek was, “Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”

But Paramount, according to Shatner, has edited that to take out the final phrase “to boldly go where no man has gone before.”

After all, we can’t say anything nice about men these days.

But now veteran Hollywood director Chris Columbus, in an interview in the San Francisco Chronicle, took it even further.

He complained that President Donald Trump’s brief seven second cameo in Columbus’ 1992 hit sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York has “become this curse.” 

In fact, Columbus went one step further saying he wished he could cut the iconic scene altogether.

“I just wish it was gone,” the director said.

During the scene in question, the film’s young star, Macaulay Culkin, received directions from Trump while inside New York’s Plaza Hotel, which Trump owned at the time.

So then, why doesn’t Columbus simply edit out the scene? 

Other directors, such as George Lucas of Star Wars fame, have made massive edits to their classic films years after their release. 

The Canadians already cut Trump from the movie

And Trump’s cameo was one of several scenes cut from the movie a decade ago by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp, allegedly to make room for more ads. 

Ironically, it is Columbus’ clear case of Trump Derangement Syndrome which has provided him a convenient excuse for not doing so.

“I can’t cut it,” the director bemoaned. “If I cut it, I’ll probably be sent out of the country. I’ll be considered sort of not fit to live in the United States, so I’ll have to go back to Italy or something.”

No doubt Columbus, who is American-born and raised, meant that as a swipe at Trump’s deportation policies.

But maybe Columbus remains haunted by the scene’s, and Trump’s, popularity.

“We screened the film in Chicago, and when that moment came onscreen the audience went crazy,” the director told the Chronicle. “They cheered and they cheered and they thought it was hilarious. I think I know a lot about comedy, but I don’t, obviously, because I never thought that was going to be considered hilarious.”

“Years later, it’s become this curse. It’s become this thing that I wish it was not there,” he added.

 “I had no idea they would love him so much and find him so funny,” Columbus effectively said. “But I don’t care what the plebes like. I only care what establishment journalists and my elite friends think. I wish I could get rid of the scene.”

And Trump has forged a powerful bond with ordinary Americans in part because they love the president’s authenticity. 

But maybe the real reason for Columbus’ hatred of the scene is because it reminds him that Hollywood’s elites once loved Trump. 

They loved him, in fact, until he decided to run for president.

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