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When the show GCB was released on ABC, a former Disney member, David Outten, wrote a letter to Iger citing that the show was disrespectful and alienating American Christians, and cited the group he and Disney are currently appealing to won't fill seats at a theater.<ref>http://www.christiancinema.com/catalog/newsdesk_info.php?newsdesk_id=2045</ref>
When the show GCB was released on ABC, a former Disney member, David Outten, wrote a letter to Iger citing that the show was disrespectful and alienating American Christians, and cited the group he and Disney are currently appealing to won't fill seats at a theater.<ref>http://www.christiancinema.com/catalog/newsdesk_info.php?newsdesk_id=2045</ref>
Most infamously, he also proceeded to not only fire various American IT workers at the Disney theme parks, but also proceeded to force them to train their replacements (all of whom were outsourced workers) under the threat of their severance packages being confiscated, in a clear abuse of the H-1B visa program.<ref>http://blog.hreonline.com/2015/06/04/disneys-h1b-controversy/</ref>
Ironically, he also started showing controversy from the left when he joined Donald Trump's advisory committee, although he claimed he was only part of it so he could influence policy decisions to be more favorable to the left, quoting the play "Hamiltons".<ref>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-disney-shareholders-meeting-disney-ceo-bob-iger-defends-trump-1488997088-htmlstory.html</ref>
Ironically, he also started showing controversy from the left when he joined Donald Trump's advisory committee, although he claimed he was only part of it so he could influence policy decisions to be more favorable to the left, quoting the play "Hamiltons".<ref>http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-disney-shareholders-meeting-disney-ceo-bob-iger-defends-trump-1488997088-htmlstory.html</ref>