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| - A rumor that The Walt Disney Co. is permanently closing the Hall of Presidents at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, circulated online in fall 2024. For instance, on Nov. 10, 2024, the TikTok account Mouse Trap News posted a clip claiming that the park planned to close the exhibit following U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's victory against Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
Some followers seemed to interpret the rumor as a factual recounting of real-life events. One TikTok commenter wrote, "Donald trump is controversial but some presidents literally had slaves," while another responded, "If this is true woke marketing makes no sense especially when the election proved the consumer base is majority Trump approved."
The claim was also shared on the Mouse Trap News website a day earlier in an article providing additional detail about Disney's purported closure of the presidential exhibit:
Disney Permanently Closing The Hall of Presidents
Disney is permanently closing the Hall of Presidents. This announcement comes only days after Donald Trump won the presidential election.
According to an internal source, Disney no longer wants to have such a divisive show inside their theme park. They mentioned that the re-election of Donald Trump would make the attraction too controversial and isn't in the spirit of Disney. After all, they already had plans to remove President Trump, which we reported on here.
Our source also mentioned that Imagineers were already working on a Kamala Harris animatronic. However, the election results didn't follow their plan. In 2016, they made this same mistake with Hillary Clinton.
Imagineers had already created the animatronic, but then Trump won. Instead of scraping the work, they decided to rework the animatronic into President Trump. However, that's not as easy with Kamala Harris for obvious reasons. They have decided it's easier and better to just close the attraction permanently.
Luckily, instead of just scrapping everything in the ride, Disney will sell the presidential animatronics at an auction. So if you want an animatronic of any of the past presidents, you can bid on them. It's not yet clear what will take the place of the Hall of Presidents once it closes.
However, there was no evidence to support this claim. No such announcement was reported by any reputable news outlet or any of Disney Co.'s official websites.
Rather, the rumor originated with Mouse Trap News, a website that describes its output as being humorous or satirical in nature. Its "About" page states:
Mouse Trap News is the world's best satire and parody site. We write fake stories about Disney Parks stuff. From Disney Park announcements to Disney Hotel and resort news to made-up Disney partnerships, you can be assured that anything you read here is not true, real, or accurate, but it is fun. So technically our slogan The Moused Trusted Name in Disney News isn't true, but we thought it was creative and funny, so we are running with it.
Moreover, the Mouse Trap News TikTok account describes itself as "Real Disney News That is 100% FAKE‼️"
Snopes has addressed similar claims in the past about the Trump statue inside Disney's Hall of Presidents, including the satirical assertion in December 2023 that the entertainment company had decided to remove the animatronic figure from Disney World, and the true claim of a photograph showing the Trump figure housed within the exhibit.
For background, here is why we alert readers to rumors created by sources that call their output humorous or satirical.
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