Trump says Walt Disney is 'looking down asking "what has happened to my Magic ...

Donald Trump on Wednesday said he thinks Walt Disney is looking down at his company's pro-LGBTQI stance and wondering, 'What has happened to my Magic Kingdom?' 

He also claimed without backing that more than half of transgender youth regret making the change 'later in life' as Republican-led states across the country crack down on gender-affirming care for kids and teens, and limit trans participation in youth sports.

The Walt Disney Company waded into these burgeoning culture wars with its vocal opposition to Florida's Parental Rights In Education bill, which places limits on discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation in the classroom. 

Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, a former Trump acolyte who's now seen as a potential 2024 White House nominee in his own right, led a push by Republican lawmakers in the Sunshine State to revoke a decades-old law giving Disney's property self-governance over its pro-LGBTQI stance.

Critics have dubbed the new law the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, claiming it harms developing and impressionable transgender or otherwise non-cisgender straight youth.

Trump called the trans rights movement a 'terrible thing' during a wide-ranging interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network.

'That's not the way it should be, that's for sure. It is a terrible thing. I mean, especially when you're taking children that don't even have this period to form,' the former president said.

'And you know, in many cases -- I hear 60 percent of the cases -- later they say "Why did they do this to me?" Sixty percent. No, I think it's a terrible thing.'

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Trump continued, 'I think what's happened with Disney and what Disney's doing, Walt Disney is looking down.'

'He's not happy, OK? Walt Disney's saying, "What ever happened to my beautiful Magic Kingdom?"'

The former president predicted the entire movement promoting gender exploration for LGBTQI youth would be 'shut out.'

'This is a different different world. It's a new world and I think it's actually going to be shut out. You know how it's gonna get shut out? Common sense. It's common sense, but I think it's going. And I think religion will help shut it out,' Trump said.

He then seemed to accuse LGBTQI activists of being against Christianity.

Trump told the religious network: 'You know, nobody has done more for Christianity, nobody has done more for religion of all types than me.'

'And they're really doing things now to -- and I've always said it, they are against organized religion, they are against Christianity.'

It's not clear what 'they' Trump was referring to.

Elsewhere in the interview, he took aim at President Joe Biden's new Disinformation Governance Board,

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