Editing Bob Iger (section)

===Politics===
Iger has described himself as a political [[centrist]]. He previously identified with the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/27/opinion/sway-kara-swisher-bob-iger.html?showTranscript=1|title=Disney's Former C.E.O. Gave Me the Exit Interview I Asked For|date=January 27, 2022|website=The New York Times}}</ref> In 2016, Iger switched his party registration from Democratic to [[Independent voter|independent]].<ref name="Rutenberg">{{cite web |last=Rutenberg |first=Jim |title=For Disney's Iger, an Unlikely Political Turn|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/08/business/media/for-disney-chief-robert-iger-an-unlikely-political-turn.html |accessdate=October 9, 2017 |work=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 8, 2017}}</ref>

In May 2016, during a dispute over [[Criticism of the Walt Disney Company#Miscellaneous|Disney Resort's low wages]], Iger wrote in a [[Facebook]] post claiming that Disney had hired 11,000 new employees in the past decade at Disneyland, and 18,000 in the past 5 years in the US. Iger specifically targeted Vermont Senator, [[Bernie Sanders]], who had been outspoken on the issue.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/2016/05/25/media/bob-iger-bernie-sanders/index.html|title=Bob Iger fires back at Bernie Sanders: 'How many jobs have you created?'|last1=Byers|first1=Dylan|date=May 25, 2016|website=CNN|access-date=June 7, 2018}}</ref> Disney settled with the Department of Labor and agreed to pay back wages the following year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Disney reaches agreement on pay practices with US Department of Labor {{!}} U.S. Department of Labor |url=https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20170317 |access-date=February 14, 2022 |website=www.dol.gov}}</ref>

Iger co-chaired a fundraiser for [[Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016|Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign]] on August 22, 2016.<ref name="bhcourierhillaryclintonfundraisersmagicjohnson">{{cite news|title=Hillary Clinton Fundraisers Coming to Beverly Hills|url=http://bhcourier.com/beverly-hills-news-hillary-clinton-fundraisers-coming-to-beverly-hills/|access-date=August 5, 2016|work=[[The Beverly Hills Courier]]|date=August 3, 2016|archive-date=February 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225041349/https://beverlyhillscourier.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was named to [[President-elect of the United States|President-elect]] [[Donald Trump|Trump's]] [[Strategic and Policy Forum]] on December 2, 2016.<ref name="igertrump">{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-bob-iger-donald-trump-20161202-story.html|title=Disney's Bob Iger named to Donald Trump's new President's Strategic and Policy Forum|date=December 2, 2016|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> He resigned from the Forum on June 1, 2017, out of protest after President Trump withdrew the United States from the [[Paris Climate Agreement]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Stedman|first1=Alex|last2=Johnson|first2=Ted|title=Disney CEO Bob Iger Resigns From Trump's Advisory Council Over Paris Accord Decision|url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/disney-ceo-bob-iger-resigns-from-trumps-advisory-council-over-paris-accord-decision-1202451184/|access-date=June 2, 2017|work=Variety|date=June 1, 2017}}</ref>

Iger had considered running for president before and after the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 election]] as a Democrat, but ultimately decided against it.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/27/opinion/sway-kara-swisher-bob-iger.html?showTranscript=1%7Ctitle=Disney%27s| title= Disney's Former C.E.O. Gave Me the Exit Interview I Asked for| work=[[The New York Times]] | first=Kara| last=Swisher| date=January 27, 2022|access-date= February 19, 2022}}</ref>