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The Walt Disney Company Was Provided USAID Funds by the Biden Administration to Create NatGeo Content

February 5, 2025  ·
  W. D. W. Pro
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A new investigation by That Park Place has revealed that The Walt Disney Company benefited from a relationship with the Biden Administration via funds provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Up to six million dollars was tallied for a joint venture between the The Walt Disney Company Africa and National Geographic to develop a show that appears to have had scant viewership. Titled “Team Sayari”, it was created under a partnership involving USAID, the U.S. Department of State, The Walt Disney Company, National Geographic, and WildlifeDirect. The initiative sought to inspire young environmental stewards through an educational children’s television series and community outreach programs across Africa.

According to publicly available data, the money for the show was approved for The Walt Disney Company in 2021, shortly after Biden took office. The show debuted in 2022. At this time, we can find no source for how much of the $6 million was paid by US taxpayers versus Disney. However, a look at the show’s production values makes it difficult to believe those funds were well-stewarded. 

A National Geographic website describes the show as such:

Team Sayari (Kiswahili: sayari = planet) is a show about a group of young, budding conservationists who along with FUNZI, an AI computer represented as a large, glowing, DNA double helix, are Africa’s protectors working from a fun and high-tech base known as Sayari basecamp. 

However, searching for information on this show is a difficult task. Even IMDB seems unsure whether the show has been cancelled or is still receiving more episodes. There may have been a second season based on a promo we found, but there’s no announcement about whether or not USAID continued to fund any productions that we can find. Of course, the USAID website is only a landing page at the time of publication because of the major changes happening under the Trump administration.

Scrutiny into USAID and its funding of legacy media companies has increased dramatically as Elon Musk has put particular emphasis for DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) to the task of cleaning wasteful and fraudulent spending.

We here at That Park Place are just beginning our investigation into the many, many Disney Company subsidiaries and whether or not they were beneficiaries of taxpayer money over the last four years. At this time, we cannot confirm more than the Team Sayari project with specificity. However, as scandals grow over millions of dollars spent for things like Politico premium memberships by the government, one might safely conclude that the US Government for years and/or decades has been using exorbitant spending to assist and curry favor with legacy media companies for purposes that may not have been fully understood by average citizens until now. 

 

We’ll stay on it as we go through a huge number of companies like ABC, Marvel, National Geographic, and more, to uncover what might have been going on behind the scenes.

Author: W. D. W. Pro
Founder, Publisher, CEO WDW Pro is an opinionated commentator on all things Disney and Entertainment. He runs one of the most-viewed pop culture news channels on YouTube with many millions of views every month. First becoming well-known on WDWMagic.com, the author was brought on to work at Pirates and Princesses. Pro has previously released exclusive details on a variety of rumors and leaks before they were made public. Some exclusives have included breaking info on new Epcot attractions, detailing the light saber experience at the Star Wars hotel, reporting a Harrison Ford injury severity before anyone else, revealing Hugh Jackman was coming to the MCU, Storm would be linked with Wakanda and more. WDW Pro has written articles viewed by millions of readers while maintaining an 87% accuracy rating for revealing "insider" information in 2020. In 2021, the author had a better than 90% accuracy on reported leaks and rumors. Pro joined That Park Place on June 22nd, 2021. The author's accolades include being featured on The Daily Wire, cited by Timcast, numerous references by YouTube personalities, as well as having material tweeted by Dr. Jordan Peterson. WDW Pro is honored, and grateful, while hoping to make the world a better place. In 2023, a third party audit found Pro's accuracy for rumors and scoops to be 92.5%. SOCIAL MEDIA: X: http://x.com/wdwpro1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WDW_Pro EMAIL: wdwpro@thatparkplace.com
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Mr0303

Imagine your tax money going to the Disney corporation of all things.

drakiesan

Yea… It works that way. Always. EU is giving dotations to international corporations… just because they “qualify”. The corps set up a small company through several shells. The company ask for money. The money goes through the shells to the big corp. The small company dissolves. The big corp got 20million euros for 5k (not exactly this money) it took to setup the company. After it is investigated by third parties and the whole shebang blows up, the EU does nothing or just gives a small token fine, definitely not sue the big ass corp, because it would take years and far more than 20 million euros.

And so the cycle continues.

keimosabe

The amount of USAID money going to MSM outlets since 2015 is mind blowing. New York Times, Politico, AP, Reuters…. it is stunning. Makes all the anti trump, democrat loving press since now start to make a LOT of sense.

And now we find Disney among the taxpayer grift. People need to be in jail.

drakiesan

People go to jail when they broke the law (or are political prisoners). This was all legal. That’s what’s make it sick.

Arc

Finally the swamp is draining, time for the cockroaches to run away, very interesting my dear USaid was financing Illegal inmigration to EU too in the canari island… Well well well the Naipes Tower is collapsing, keep going!!

Bunny With A Keyboard

I expect a lot of wokeness to go broke without government funds being secretly tossed their way anymore.

krutoj

When Trump said he’s going to stop the support of europe, with US taxes, as a european I thought: “What is he talking about?!” Because I’ve never heard, about financial support from the US in any way.
Now that the spendings of the USAID have been unveiled and we have seen, what the “support” has been, I’m just like: “Yes, please stop this support!”

The USAID has been funding DEI and woke Media in europe. No wonder the public has never heard of that “support”. I’m just curious what other stuff they will dig out in the future.

Mex Mexican

USAID is the CIA

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