Overheard it at work a few days ago, looked it up today.

http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/on-the-town/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2017/1/30/petitions_fight_dona.html

LAKE BUENA VISTA --
It’s happening, whether some people like it or not: Donald Trump is coming to the Hall of Presidents attraction at Walt Disney World.

Walt Disney World closed Hall of Presidents attraction for refurbishment
Petitions asked Disney not to add President Trump to the attraction
New petition asks disney to stop Trump animatronic from speaking
After Trump won the 2016 Presidential Election, many Disney fans speculated that his animatronic would be added to the Magic Kingdom attraction. Disney confirmed those suspicious when it announced shortly after, that the attraction would close in January for refurbishment.

Including the new Commander-in-Chief has become something of a tradition after every presidential election cycle. Former President Barack Obama was added in 2009, George W. Bush in 2001 and Bill Clinton in 1993.

However, some people are unhappy with the planned addition of Trump. Many of them have called on Disney to either close the attraction permanently or not add him at all. Some have even started change.org petitions in hopes of getting Disney to change its mind.

A New York man has started a petition asking Disney to “stop the inevitable Donald Trump animatronic figure from speaking.”

“Donald Trump ran a Presidential campaign on hateful speech misogyny, racism and xenophobia," wrote Matthew Rogers in the petition. “In doing so, he tainted the legacy of the American Presidency forever.”

Since 1993, the animatronic of the sitting U.S. president has delivered a speech. Bill Clinton became the first president to provide his voice. George W. Bush and Obama followed suit and recorded their voices for the show.

At the time of this writing, Rogers’ petition has reached 1,133 supporters.

Disney has yet to announce how Trump will be included in the attraction.

The Hall of Presidents is scheduled to reopen in late June.

Half the point of going there on vacation is to get away from the day to day nonsense of the real world. Shit like politics, news, and other problems facing the world are supposed to be left behind when visiting WDW. I can just see it now in June with people wanting to go into the attraction and unable to enjoy it because of inevitable disrespectful noises that will be made during the show. There's already childish groans whenever both the Bush's are called.

Unfortunately I doubt most people will be unable to tell if Disney will give him something good because there'll undoubtedly be booing during the whole speech.

I really wonder what a Trump speech would look like. He's not exactly the most inspiring.

Not really, I went right before going down for "refurbishment". The only thing political coming out of it was the crowd of people who don't like Bush even when they're not saying anything. Besides, it's not courteous and is disrespectful to other people who are just trying to get away from all the backlash. Some people are coming over from other parts of the world on vacation, why should they have to have part of their stay soured because people are taking a problem that wasn't there and forcing it in?

It's literally the Hall of Presidents, in a section of the park devoted to our independence, history, revolution, blah blah blah. Let's not pretend like it's never had some connection to political events and discourse.

In which case the American presidency would have already been tainted forever.

yep

A. I'm not expecting protests like in airports where a guy is gonna get sucker punched and called a Nazi all the way to the Alpha van. I'm just expecting people causing a noisy disturbance after the cast already will say "Please no disruptive noises" and they'll be ignored and wont do anything cause they already do nothing when people act up in there.

We both know nobody will do anything to the booing, and we both know the booing is inevitable. The issue is: Why should others who just want to get away from the negativity have to suffer and not be allowed to enjoy the attraction because some people have bring their beliefs into the show?

B. At this point, our revolution is more history than anything else. The longer ago it was, the more detached people are to it. Nobody goes around talking about how the first 20 or so presidents were terrible people because slavery. Nor do we hear booing or anything of that nature when Andrew Jackson, arguably the most volatile President before Trump gets announced.

Alright, let's get two things out of the way.

First off, you and I both know the company will work with cast in that section of the park (and that attraction), and with security to ensure any disruption is minimal. They know how to handle these kinds of issues.

Second off, you're gonna try and say a section devoted to our revolution and subsequent line of leaders isn't political?

Look at this hypocrite.

EPCOT > DAK

Yeah, and your cheap ass didn't get a beer with me

Walt would agree with me and you know it.

EPCOT > MK > DAK > HS

Worst opinion ever

Too far bruh, I'm a model cast member.

Walt would keep your ass from working in the parks.

Now I'm not an expert on presidential campaigns, but looking back on US history I wouldn't be surprised if past presidents gave speeches or said things that would be considered misogynistic, racist, or xenophobic today. In which case the American presidency would have already been tainted forever.

Yeah but they didn't say those things in Current Year II, so it doesn't count.