data-mm-id=”_m74tycm5z”>Home Alone came out 30 years ago today. One of the best Christmas movies ever, people are rightly celebrating it with something besides the usual "BUY THE HOME ALONE HOUSE" posts. Insider has an interview with director Christopher Columbus in which he explained how Donald Trump ended up in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. It was utterly Trump-ish.Via Insider: “Like most locations in New York City, you just pay a fee and you are allowed to shoot in that location. We approached The Plaza Hotel, which Trump owned at the time, because we wanted to shoot in the lobby. We couldn’t rebuild The Plaza on a soundstage.
Trump said OK. We paid the fee, but he also said, “The only way you can use the Plaza is if I’m in the movie.” So we agreed to put him in the mov…