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An audio-animatronic figure of Donald Trump has joined the Hall of Presidents at the Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom theme park in Orlando,
Fla. During Monday’s soft-reopening of the long-running attraction, a robotic facsimile of the 45th president of the
United States stood front and slightly off-center among figures representing his predecessors.
The revamped 25-minute show has Trump, or at least a silicone-skinned version of him, standing next to a seated Abraham Lincoln in the center of the stage with his signature hair, his suit jacket unbuttoned and his tie dangling extra low. The Trump figure moves his head during the traditional roll call of leaders, motions with his arms and gives a brief speech. A Disney spokeswoman says Trump recorded his Hall of Presidents script earlier this year. Every sitting president since Bill Clinton has had a speaking part. The Hall of Presidents debuted at the Magic Kingdom in 1971 and gets an update with each change in leadership. After closing in January, the theater also received an upgrade in its sound, light and projection packages. Disney said the official opening date was Tuesday.
Actress Margot Robbie learned to ice skate for I, Tonya and loved it, but she hasn’t donned skates since. Robbie says ice antics are prohibited by most movie contracts for insurance reasons, and she’s been shooting all year. Now that her work on three upcoming films is done, though, Robbie says getting back on the blades is part of her holiday plans. “I want to get back on my skates over Christmas,” she said. “I have been consistently under contract this year and I haven’t been allowed to ice skate.” Besides giving the actress a new sport to enjoy, her training for I, Tonya led to an awards-worthy result: The film has racked up three Golden Globe nominations and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.