DeSantis blames Disney's 'woke' agenda for low park attendance

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) stated Monday that he believes that Disney's "woke" agenda is "impacting" ticket gross sales to their theme parks.

Latest experiences present unusually brief strains at "empty" Disney theme parks this summer time.

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"I feel it's impacting mother and father who wish to take their children to Disney," DeSantis stated to The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Present.

As a father of younger kids, the Florida governor stated he believes kids ought to have the ability to go to highschool and watch cartoons "with out having an agenda shoved down their throat."

He added that the rank-and-file Disney staff help his efforts based mostly on 2022 electoral knowledge from the counties surrounding Disney World within the Orlando, Florida, space.

“The unhappy half about it, guys, is once we have been having this combat with Disney in 2022, many of the workers of their Orlando space theme parks agreed with us,” DeSantis stated.

“I gained Osceola County for the primary time a Republican has carried out in a technology by 7 share factors, which is the place the vast majority of Disney workers reside,” the 2024 Republican presidential candidate stated.

Along with Disney’s theme parks exhibiting unprecedentedly low visitors, critics have famous that political backlash is carrying over to Disney’s franchise film Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future, calling it a field workplace flop.

Indiana Jones was not the primary of Disney's high-budget theatrical misfires of 2023. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, The Little Mermaid, and Elemental all suffered on the field workplace this yr.