SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Recounting the unexpected difficulties the future president’s brief cameo brought to his film shoot, Home Alone 2: Lost In New York director Chris Columbus admitted Wednesday that he has hours of outtakes featuring Donald Trump uttering racial slurs. “We thought it would be a fun little 30-second cameo from a popular New York figure, but we got barely any usable footage because Trump kept yelling [the N-word] at everyone in the lobby of the Plaza,” said the director, who divulged that several takes had to cut early as Trump unleashed a 15-20-minute torrent of various racial slurs, once even wrestling the Talkboy voice-changing tape recorder from Macaulay Culkin’s hands and filling its 30-minute cassette with disparaging slurs for Mexicans. “We had to spend two days shooting that scene. We’d feed him his line, but every time he’d say something like, ‘The lobby’s over there by those [N-words],’ and we’d have to cut yet again. His cameo was meant to be much longer, but we edited it down to the few seconds where he wasn’t bellowing anything horribly offensive.” Columbus went on to describe the full-page ad Trump took out in the New York Post demanding the Pigeon Lady’s arrest and execution for her suspicious activities in Central Park.
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      4 days ago

      I remember in the 90s when the onion was much less known, and therefore unclear to the reader that it was parody.

      At the time, life made sense. So the onion coming out with articles about bill clinton putting monica lewinski in charge as the head of the national department of sexual education, it came off as very out of place in the realm of real news. MOST people read the articles, and knew something was amiss, even if they didn’t know what the onion was. Still though, some people still believed the wacky absurd news articles, and it put a spotlight on those who had zero critical thinking skills. THATS what made the onion fun back then. Laughing at the boomers who got fussy over literal fake news. Back before the term “fake news” was a thing.

      Now though? The onion still posts wildly unbelievable absurd stories, but because real life is wildly unrealistic and absurd, even people who fully understand what the onion is still fall for it. Simply by doing nothing differently, they are now far more believable, and don’t immediately stand out as unrealistic anymore.