Trump boasts about Home Alone 2 movie appearance as he quits US actors’ union
Written by News on 05/02/2021
Donald Trump has resigned from an American actors’ union, boasting about his work on films including Home Alone 2 and Zoolander, and telling the organisation: “You have done nothing for me.”
The former US president quit the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) to avoid the risk of being pushed, as the Hollywood-based union was considering expelling him over his role in the attack on the US Capitol.
In his letter to the union’s president Gabrielle Carteris, he addressed the issue of his possible expulsion, saying: “Who cares!”
He went on: “While I’m not familiar with your work, I’m very proud of my work on movies such as Home Alone 2, Zoolander and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; and television shows including The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Saturday Night Live, and of course, one of the most successful shows in television history, The Apprentice-to name just a few!”
He also claimed credit for “greatly helping the cable news business” during his time in office.
Mr Trump earned his union membership from brief cameo appearances in films such as Home Alone 2 and Zoolander (in which his ex-model wife Melania also appeared) and TV programmes such as Sex And The City in the early 1990s.
His most recent roles were as host and producer of reality series The Apprentice and its spinoff Celebrity Apprentice.
Earlier this year, Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin, who played enterprising, burglar-thwarting Kevin McCallister in the franchise, was among those backing calls for Mr Trump’s removal from the film.
Mr Trump criticised the union for doing “little for its members and nothing for me – besides collecting dues and promoting dangerous un-American policies and ideas”.
He concluded: “I no longer wish to be associated with your union. As such, this letter is to inform you of my immediate resignation from SAG-AFTRA. You have done nothing for me.”
In response to his departure, the guild published its two-word response online: “Thank you.”
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SAG-AFTRA said last month that Mr Trump had “attacked the values that this union holds most sacred – democracy, truth, respect for our fellow Americans of all races and faiths, and the sanctity of the free press”.
Their words came in the same month that the US House of Representatives voted to impeach Mr Trump after charging him with inciting an insurrection at the Capitol in Washington DC.
Mr Trump faces trial in the Senate next week over the charge.
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