--- title: Disney Hall of Presidents Adds Talking Donald Trump Robot description: Disney's Hall of Presidents has added a talking Donald Trump robot. canonical: https://time.com/5070693/disney-hall-presidents-donald-trump/ author: Laignee Barron article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-19T07:35:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:53:51.085Z article:section: Politics og:title: Disney Added a Talking Robotic Donald Trump to its Hall of Presidents og:description: "It's a privilege to serve as the President of the United States," the robot says og:url: https://time.com/5070693/disney-hall-presidents-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49304d89ae67e4af/6988f5aecf40a8237ec4aa8d/donald-trump-disney-hall-presidents.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: donald trump disney hall presidents og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Disney Added a Talking Robotic Donald Trump to its Hall of Presidents twitter:description: "It's a privilege to serve as the President of the United States," the robot says twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49304d89ae67e4af/6988f5aecf40a8237ec4aa8d/donald-trump-disney-hall-presidents.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Disney Added a Talking Robotic Donald Trump to its Hall of Presidents ## Video: President Trump Stresses 'America First' in National Security Strategy Speech [Watch (HLS stream): President Trump Stresses 'America First' in National Security Strategy Speech](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/TuZCuHBl.m3u8) (1:48)  _Published 2017-12-18. President Donald Trump declared a new national security strategy on Monday, stressing the “America first” message of his 2016 campaign and faulting previous U.S. leaders for failing to measure up to it and look out for the nation’s citizens._ by [Laignee Barron](https://time.com/author/laignee-barron/) ## Laignee Barron Dec 19, 2017 7:35 AM UTC  by [Laignee Barron](https://time.com/author/laignee-barron/) ## Laignee Barron Dec 19, 2017 7:35 AM UTC America’s 45th president has at long last arrived at Disney World in full robotic fashion. The animatronic President Donald Trump was added to the Magic Kingdom’s newly revamped Hall of Presidents Monday, donning an unbuttoned suit jacket with an extra long white and blue tie, standing between a seated Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. President Trump’s speaking role will debut Tuesday, when the attraction in Orlando, Fla., officially opens. According to the Orlando _Sentinel_‘s [preview](http://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/attractions/theme-park-rangers-blog/os-bz-disney-hall-presidents-trump-speaks-20171218-story.html) of the exhibition, the Trump robot, placed center stage, nods, talks with his hands and delivers a brief speech, but has not been programmed to Tweet. “Above all, to be American is to be an optimist — to believe that we can always do better — and that the best days of our great nation are still ahead of us,” robot President Trump reportedly says in part of his speech. “It’s a privilege to serve as the President of the United States, to stand here among so many great leaders of our past, and to work on behalf of the American people.” President Trump recorded his lines earlier this year, continuing a tradition that began with President Bill Clinton in 1993\. The Hall of Presidents, one of Disney World’s oldest attractions, features speeches from Lincoln, George Washington and the sitting President. There was speculation that Disney would break from precedent and not grant robot Trump a speaking role after the exhibition’s re-opening was delayed from June. Disney quickly dispelled any rumors that the automaton would be voiceless. “Despite some media reports to the contrary, President Trump will have a speaking role,” the company said in a [blog post](https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2017/06/latest-on-enhancement-to-the-hall-of-presidents-at-magic-kingdom-park/). Some, however, would have preferred a silent role; a change.org [petition](https://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disney-company-no-speech-from-the-donald-trump-animatronic-in-walt-disney-world-s-hall-of-presidents) netted more than 15,000 signatures “to stop the inevitable Donald Trump animatronic figure from speaking,” claiming that he “ran a Presidential campaign on hateful speech, misogyny, racism and xenophobia.” [According to Disney](https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2017/12/the-hall-of-presidents-reopens-at-the-walt-disney-world-resort-after-year-long-transformation/), President Trump’s carefully crafted robot look-a-like “features the latest advances in technology that enable smoother and more lifelike movements.” The first animatronic President was a spitting image of Lincoln, cast for New York 1964-65 World’s Fair, Disney added. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5070693/disney-hall-presidents-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5070693/disney-hall-presidents-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Disney Added a Talking Robotic Donald Trump to its Hall of Presidents","datePublished":"2017-12-19T07:35:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:53:51.085Z","description":"\"It's a privilege to serve as the President of the United States,\" the robot says","url":"https://time.com/5070693/disney-hall-presidents-donald-trump/","keywords":["People","celebrities","White House","Disney World","onetime","President Donald Trump","overnight"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49304d89ae67e4af/6988f5aecf40a8237ec4aa8d/donald-trump-disney-hall-presidents.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laignee Barron","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laignee-barron/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49304d89ae67e4af/6988f5aecf40a8237ec4aa8d/donald-trump-disney-hall-presidents.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"donald trump disney hall presidents","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/people/","name":"People"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5070693/disney-hall-presidents-donald-trump/","name":"Disney Added a Talking Robotic Donald Trump to its Hall of Presidents"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"President Trump Stresses 'America First' in National Security Strategy Speech","description":"President Donald Trump declared a new national security strategy on Monday, stressing the “America first” message of his 2016 campaign and faulting previous U.S. leaders for failing to measure up to it and look out for the nation’s citizens.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/TuZCuHBl/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-12-18T21:01:07.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/TuZCuHBl.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5070693/disney-hall-presidents-donald-trump/","duration":"PT1M48S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5070693/disney-hall-presidents-donald-trump/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```