Disney World will soon reopen its Hall of Presidents — with a talking Robo-Trump


Disney World's Hall of Presidents is a sit-down ride for all ages featuring animatronic representations of every American president. It is ideally a celebration of American history and realistically a place for tired, sunburnt parents to just sit in the air conditioning for a few blessed moments.
It is also currently closed, as the park shutters the attraction for renovations — namely, installing a new figure — after every presidential inauguration. The unusual length of 2017's closure since President Trump took office led to reports that Disney was unsure of how to craft a family-friendly Robo-Trump. Would he talk? What would he say? So many of his quotes are less than magical.
On Sunday, however, Disney confirmed to a local Florida news outlet that the Hall of Presidents will reopen in "late 2017" and Robo-Trump will indeed have a speaking role. "The same thing that we've done with other presidents, is the same plan we have for President Trump," said Disney's Jacquee Wahler, vice president of communications. The park hopes to have the Hall of Presidents back in action by the anniversary of Trump's election.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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