{"id":1934506,"date":"2023-05-20T02:55:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T06:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-shapiro-explains-the-real-story-behind-latest-desantis-disney-battle\/"},"modified":"2023-05-20T02:58:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T06:58:19","slug":"ben-shapiro-explains-the-real-story-behind-latest-desantis-disney-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-shapiro-explains-the-real-story-behind-latest-desantis-disney-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapiro clarifies DeSantis-Disney feud."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fben-shapiro-explains-the-real-story-behind-latest-desantis-disney-battle%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1934506&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Disney Cancels $1 Billion Office Complex in Orlando<\/h2>\n<p>Disney&#8217;s decision to cancel the construction of a $1 billion office complex in Orlando has been widely discussed in the media. However, Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro has revealed that the reason behind the cancellation has little to do with Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217; battle against the company&#8217;s woke priorities. <\/p>\n<h3>The Real Reason Behind the Cancellation<\/h3>\n<p>According to Shapiro, Disney canceled the project due to economic blows it has taken unrelated to the state of Florida revoking special tax privileges from its Walt Disney World campus. Additionally, the new office space planned for Florida received a wave of pushback internally from employees who did not want to relocate to the Sunshine State. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisney is spinning the fact that they are in a state of economic free-fall as a woke corporate stand,\u201d Shapiro said.<\/p>\n<h3>Disney&#8217;s Declining Streaming Service<\/h3>\n<p>Shapiro pointed out that Disney&#8217;s streaming service has declined recently, losing around 4 million subscribers so far this year and having to cut thousands of jobs in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawsuit-alec-baldwin-had-no-reason-to-fire-gun-during-scene-being-rehearsed\/\" title=\"Lawsuit: Alec Baldwin Had No Reason to Fire Gun During Scene Being Rehearsed\">cost-cutting measures<\/a>. In addition, the office complex had been delayed for years since it was announced in 2021, and it was expected to be delayed years longer.<\/p>\n<h3>Bob Iger&#8217;s Opinion on the Project<\/h3>\n<p>Bob Iger, former CEO of Disney, was not a fan of the project. He believed that building the office space and moving Disney&#8217;s Imagineering workforce, which works with Disney&#8217;s movie studios to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-shapiro-explains-the-real-story-behind-latest-desantis-disney-battle\/\" title=\"Shapiro clarifies DeSantis-Disney feud.\">develop theme park rides<\/a> and attractions, to Florida when the movie studios are located in California made little sense, according to The New York Times. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis notion that this is something new, like it\u2019s brand new that they\u2019re deciding to do kill the project, that is not true,\u201d Shapiro said.<\/p>\n<h3>The Real Reason Behind the Cancellation<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cDisney is doing this because they are losing money. Disney has a problem,\u201d Shapiro said, pointing out that the company\u2019s stock price has cratered and lost about half its value since hitting a high in early 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you think that this was Bob Iger looking at the fact that they have been bleeding money and saying, \u2018We\u2019re not spending $1 billion on a campus that just moved some employees from one state to another?\u2019 Do you think it\u2019s that? The bleeding of money?\u201d Shapiro asked. \u201cOr do you think that he was just that invested in making sure that third graders could read Gender Queer at the library? Which one do you think it is?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has announced plans for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-pixars-lightyear-banned-in-saudi-arabia-over-same-sex-kiss-report\/\" title=\"Disney Pixar\u2019s \u2018Lightyear\u2019 Banned In Saudi Arabia Over Same-Sex Kiss: Report\">kids\u2019 entertainment content<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disney canceled the $1 billion office complex in Orlando due to economic blows and pushback from employees.<\/li>\n<li>The decline of Disney&#8217;s streaming service and the delay of the office complex were also factors.<\/li>\n<li>Bob Iger did not support the project and believed it made little sense to move Imagineering to Florida.<\/li>\n<li>Disney&#8217;s stock price has lost about half its value since hitting a high in early 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems that the cancellation of the $1 billion office complex in Orlando was not due to Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217; battle against the company&#8217;s woke priorities, as previously thought. Instead, it was a result of economic blows and pushback from employees. Disney&#8217;s declining streaming service and the delay of the office complex were also factors. Bob Iger did not support the project and believed it made little sense to move Imagineering to Florida. Disney&#8217;s stock price has lost about half its value since hitting a high in early 2021. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney&#8217;s cancellation of a $1 billion office complex in Orlando was not due to Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217; opposition to the company&#8217;s &#8220;woke&#8221; policies, according to Ben Shapiro. The Daily Wire editor emeritus stated that Disney&#8217;s decision was based on economic setbacks unrelated to Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1934507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6375,27180,14161,5013],"class_list":["post-1934506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-clarifies","tag-desantis-disney","tag-feud","tag-shapiro"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}