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Trump team battling Disney over speech in ‘Hall of Presidents’ attraction: report
THE HILL ^ | June 27,2017 | By Mallory Shelbourne

Posted on 06/27/2017 7:57:36 AM PDT by Hojczyk

President Trump’s team has reportedly been battling Walt Disney World Imagineers over the president’s speech for The Hall of Presidents’ exhibit in Magic Kingdom.

A source described to Vice the back-and-forth between Disney and Trump’s aides, who have insisted that they will write the speech Trump’s robot will give during the attraction.

"When Disney tried to get this process started earlier this year," the source explained to Vice, "Trump's people said, 'We'll be writing the speech that the President's Audio-Animatronic figure will be saying.'"

The Imagineers for speeches have in the past worked with the various presidents’ teams to write the address, which for the last two decades has been given at the end of the exhibit by a robot of the current president.

"The Imagineers [the researchers and developers behind Disney's theme park attractions] tried to point out that they're typically involved with this process," the source told the news outlet.

"That they directly collaborated with Clinton, Bush, and Obama's people when it came to figuring out what the President's Audio-Animatronic figure would say. Trump's people said, 'No. We're writing this speech. You guys have no input on this.' "

The source said the company fears a boycott of the theme parks should the president take to Twitter to express his grievances.

"They'd particularly like to avoid him tweeting about this situation," the source said. "It would most likely result in a call for conservatives to boycott Walt Disney World, which is the company's biggest fear." Tags Donald Trump walt disney world hall of presidents magic kingdom

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: disney; presidents; themeparks; trump
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1 posted on 06/27/2017 7:57:36 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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All the right people fear Trump’s tweets. Excellent!!


2 posted on 06/27/2017 8:00:10 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Conservatives should be boycotting all Disney crap.

They’ve been anti-freedom, anti-family, anti-Christian for a very long time, now.


3 posted on 06/27/2017 8:02:27 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Hojczyk

Disney wants to hire Michael Moore and Kathy Griffin to write DJT’s animatronic speech.


4 posted on 06/27/2017 8:03:38 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Westbrook

Simple. Disney either acknowledges Trump’s right to his own words or lose 25% of their gate. We ain’t playin no more.


5 posted on 06/27/2017 8:05:45 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Hojczyk
"They'd particularly like to avoid him tweeting about this situation," the source said. "It would most likely result in a call for conservatives to boycott Walt Disney World, which is the company's biggest fear."

Which can hardly be the case, considering the way they pander to every pervert group on earth.

6 posted on 06/27/2017 8:05:52 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Gee it feels great to be a gangster.)
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To: Westbrook
Conservatives should be boycotting all Disney crap.

Seriously. Not a dime to these freaks.
7 posted on 06/27/2017 8:06:51 AM PDT by Antoninus ("The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately." -Solzhenitsyn)
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“They’d particularly like to avoid him tweeting about this situation,” the source said. “It would most likely result in a call for conservatives to boycott Walt Disney World, which is the company’s biggest fear.”

What about the poor liberals who work for Disney???

Went in December...what shocked me sitting and looking at the people go by...

The place was full of deplorables..(Trump supporters)

I heard one women at the hotel... they had been saving for years to bring there kids there

Disney needs to figure how to you fast pass for everybody...

It is not worth going there if you can only get into a few popular attractions..

They have been raising prices so they would get fewer people..


8 posted on 06/27/2017 8:08:26 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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Do they have a Bill Clinton figure there that says: “I did not have sexual relations with the woman, Miss Lewinsky.”?


9 posted on 06/27/2017 8:08:48 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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Disney is a communists club of far left rats.


10 posted on 06/27/2017 8:09:18 AM PDT by Logical me
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the sad irony is Walt Disney was a staunch conservative...


11 posted on 06/27/2017 8:11:23 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Westbrook

This is written as if the Trump was demanding full rights and being facist, racist bogots. But I too would be defensible about letting the biased, racist bogots at Disney write Trump’s speech.


12 posted on 06/27/2017 8:11:58 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Hojczyk

Should just tell them to forget having a Trump robot likeness at all. Besides it’s just just something else to stand in line for an hour for after dishing out a month’s wages to get through the gate


13 posted on 06/27/2017 8:12:25 AM PDT by Horatio Gates
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Now I’d definitely pay to hear that :)


14 posted on 06/27/2017 8:13:47 AM PDT by Horatio Gates
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Talk about a bunch of Disney's leftists trying to put their own words into the mouth of the President of the United States.

How's that for gall !!!

Leni

15 posted on 06/27/2017 8:16:40 AM PDT by MinuteGal (GO TRUMP !!!.......GO PENCE !!!......USA !!! USA !!! USA !!!)
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I doubt very much that Trump told them “no, we’re writing this and you can’t give us any input”

Sounds like BS


16 posted on 06/27/2017 8:25:56 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: Westbrook

Saw an article today that Disneyworld is offering a deep discount on tickets.

It’s the middle of the summer season. Maybe visits are down?


17 posted on 06/27/2017 8:27:25 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Climate Change: The Imminent Crisis That Never Arrives and the gravy train that never ends.)
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Unbelievable “nerve” that they would think they can dictate any words for the POTUS. I don’t care if it was done in the past, good for Trump team to hold firm.


18 posted on 06/27/2017 8:28:46 AM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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""They'd particularly like to avoid him tweeting about this situation," "

Then you should have kept your big fat mouth shut about it and him "battling" you.

This has fake news written all over it. I cannot imagine someone at the White House being so petty as to say "no, we're writing this"...

I can, however, imagine them asking for final approval, which I would actually insist on.

19 posted on 06/27/2017 8:28:55 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: Hojczyk

The article is written so that it is not always clear who is responding to whom.
I thought the author was saying that yes, in the past, Disney has worked with other presidents in order to write the automated speech.
That seems to be what the Trump Team is wanting all along.
What is clear that the Disney group does not want Trump tweeting about it, due to any conservative boycotts that could result.


20 posted on 06/27/2017 8:29:33 AM PDT by lee martell
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