Posted on 12/29/2017 11:18:27 PM PST by Simon Green
An anti-Trump protester proudly heckled the animatronic of President Trump at Walt Disney World and posted a video of his “protest” to social media this week.
Jay Malsky, an actor and comedian, created a scene at Walt Disney World’s Hall of Presidents attraction earlier this week, much to the confusion of families in attendance. Right before the animatronic of President Trump was started to speak, Malsky started a series of “Lock him up” chants.
Malsky immediately faced a backlash on social media after he decided to share the video he recorded of his protest.
In a comment to The Wrap, Malsky argued that anyone who is concerned that his “protest” disrupted a family vacation can “check their privilege.”
“Anyone that’s upset I disrupted a family vacation can check their privilege and consider getting mad about the thousands of children being taken away from their parents because of Trump’s racist immigration policies, or the families of the hundreds of trans Americans murdered each year by transphobic and homophobic people, or the negative impacts of the tax bill on poor and middle-income Americans,” he said.
Malsky then praised Walt Disney World security for treating him professionally when they were escorting him from the show building. “Disney security is amazing and they do a great job protecting the millions of people who frequent their parks every day,” he explained. “They could not have been more professional and courteous to me once they made sure I wasn’t a legitimate threat to anyone.”
Malsky said that he chose to “protest” the Trump animatronic because he will “never get this close in real life probs.” Once Malsky’s chant began, audience members audibly began to express their frustration with his decision to interrupt the show.
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“of the hundreds of trans Americans murdered each year by transphobic and homophobic people,”
I wish someone would have decked him.
My hunch — the Disney employee crowd including security staff were no Trump friends either. “We wish we could say this too, but we have to put you out so we won’t lose our carefully cultivated public image.”
As for Disney itself — I interviewed there a week ago for a tech support job. Inquiring about status later, I was nicely told that I “wasn’t shortlisted.” I think that’s the professional Disney way of telling me they think I stink. I’m not sure how stink I was technically, as I didn’t get asked a lot and wasn’t asked to go to the whiteboard for one question before they started to write out the answer. I thought ageism, which might be a factor here. Ole Gramps RedNeck just too doddering to even be expected to know the answer.
I think this might have been God’s way of keeping me out of trouble I couldn’t handle. The devil hates my guts, and without a visionary like Walt on the scene anymore, just corporate machinery, there’s nobody to even argue for any kind of ethics anymore. Walt probably cared about the families and kids. What is there now just milks and milks and milks the cow at the most bargain rate possible. What could go wrong. The software sounds rickety.
And what’s this stuff anyway. I’d have thought Disney World would have sprung for another trip through the exhibit for the folks who were there when this happened. But I’m feeling cynical about Disney now and wondering about it. The consideration that at least ostensibly marked old Disney productions like the Mickey Mouse Club show might not even be there for all I know. Good on Disney if they did, which makes the commentary above partly unfair if so. If so, the people got a do-over and nothing was really spoiled. And this was just more political hyperventilation after the fact.
Anyhow, God help us. I had hoped there was room for some semblance of godliness yet at Disney if only because the old staples still sell well. But it never was totally problem-free even in Walt’s day. And did Mickey Mouse ever go to church?
What privilege? Those people paid to be there. You owe those people the price they paid for admission you A-Hole!
“Anyone that’s upset I disrupted a family vacation can check their privilege and consider getting mad about the thousands of children being taken away from their parents because of Trump’s racist immigration policies, or the families of the hundreds of trans Americans murdered each year by transphobic and homophobic people, or the negative impacts of the tax bill on poor and middle-income Americans,”
Well, speaking for privilege, it is a privilege for immigrants to come to the United States, not a right. If these Illegal immigrants chose to leave their children behind when they are deported that is their choice. No one is forcing them to do so. I would be interested to know where you get your number of transsexuals murdered each year from because I can not recall reading of more than one murdered, ever.
By the way was this really a protest or where you just looking to get some free publicity?
I once interrupted that show as well, got up to go outside and get something from my sister in law who was shopping across the street.
Apparently if the rear doors are opened during the show it shuts everything down.
“Check your privledge”?...wtf? People will come up with any excuse for being a self-absorbed a-hole.
LOL! That looks like Chris Matthews.
They should animate one of his legs to make it look like Chris Matthews’ “tingle up his leg”. Remember that re Obama?
On the creepy side - we really came thisclose to having that witch for a President!!!! Disney already had her figurine made!!!
>> But I’m feeling cynical about Disney now
Disney is truly a depraved operation. No family should spend a nickel at that crap hole.
I’m beginning to believe it. Its remaining family friendliness is utterly market driven, by those who remember the older Disney. Mickey hasn’t raped Minnie yet, but give it time. Maybe I would not have wanted to be there once I got an inside view. Hey HiTech! Can you add up our gay sales and number crunch on how to increase them? Er, no... Bye HiTech! (Yes, the application they were talking with me about could conceivably do that; a truth based approach would cause them to follow American preferences at large, but they could well drive the other way with an agenda.)
Yeah, more like they’ll turn Minnie transgender, then it’ll be Mickey and Mickey. Fine place for children.
And it ain’t even so much what the cartoon characters do. It’s what the people behind them are trying to say to the public.
Maybe I met one of these light loafers unknowingly. Guy introduces himself with two first names, and it’s not a redneck combination like Jimmy John either.
Again, like ole Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And it’s not Mickey Mouse that will make anybody gay. He is mere pictures on paper or celluloid. It’s evil spirits misusing Mickey Mouse.
I’m kind of idealistic and want to think that people having such problems — who have some arrested element of their childhood — might automatically migrate to a place like Disney. And that would be fine if they could then get a gospel-like message in a Disney context. But as far as I know, nobody has ever publicly done a Disney-like gospel message. The “entertainment in church” foes would crucify it fer sure. Some of my own gospel songs have come out that way, however. “Been There Done That” and “A Humble Redneck I Was Born” look almost startlingly Disney in style. And I didn’t even plan them that way, let alone my music co-writer who did some but not all of the music.
Mickey and some other male mouse, where Mickey is at the least bisexual.
I mentioned (blasphemy!) the theoretical possibility of a Disneyesque gospel presentation. Well I could dream. Mickey Mouse aka Steamboat Willie got a 20 year copyright extension, but will Disney forever have that clout? I don’t know, if Disney goes downhill much faster and the boom becomes a bust. If the copyright lapsed, we could have Mickey Mouse lookalikes based on the old Steamboat Willie, we just couldn’t CALL them Mickey Mouse or use them as logo marks (as active trademarks are forever). The lookalikes could be used in material to present gospel messages.
They only hire people with lisps
No wonder. I knew C++. Not lithp. Or thee pluth pluth.
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