The app for Bentkey, the Daily Wire’s new entertainment company, became the number one downloaded kids app on the Apple App store on Monday, the same day that Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing revealed the launch of the new venture.

The app, which is available now with over 150 episodes of 18 shows — including four Bentkey originals, was the most downloaded free app for kids from Apple’s store, beating out other apps like YouTubeKids and Paw Patrol Academy.

Streaming now on the Bentkey app are original shows like “A Wonderful Day with Mabel Maclay,” “Chip Chilla,” and “Kid Fit Go!” as well as a library of other curated licensed content. New episodes will arrive every Saturday morning, and new series will be added to the platform on an ongoing basis.

The announcement comes at a tumultuous time for Disney, with plummeting favorability ratings as the company becomes more and more openly political. Leaked footage in early 2022 revealed company executives advocating for more “queerness” and radical racial messages in kids content, and viral videos this year show Disney’s live action “Snow White” star Rachel Zegler condemning the iconic Disney story that launched the company into what it is today.

“While Disney still uses Walt’s name, they have all but abandoned his legacy,” said Boreing in a pre-recorded address from Lake Bled in Slovenia. Boreing is on a leave of absence from his role as co-CEO at The Daily Wire while he is directing DailyWire+’s “Pendragon” series in Hungary and Italy. “Walt Disney loved America. The company he founded seems to think America is systemically racist, and beyond just their content Disney as a corporation pushes all the worst excesses of the woke Left … It would be impossible to overstate just how big a loss this is for Americans who believe in basic reality. Disney controls the greatest content library ever created.”

Boreing also announced on Monday that the first live-action film to be brought to Bentkey would be “Snow White and the Evil Queen” featuring Daily Wire YouTube star Brett Cooper.

Bentkey — a nod to the bent key Boreing has worn around his neck every day for the past 28 years — was named and launched separately from the main DailyWire+ app because, according to Boreing, unlike Daily Wire’s heavy emphasis on hot-button political and cultural controversies, “Bentkey isn’t about teaching kids politics. It’s about childhood and wonder and adventure … [and is] dedicated to creating the next generation of timeless stories that transport kids into a world of imagination and joy, a world of content and characters that families will love and parents can trust.”

And as for an upstart daring to take on one of the biggest and most iconic studios in the history of the world, Boreing had this to say: “It’s taken 100 years to build Disney. We know we aren’t what Disney is today, but we hope in time we might become what they were, once upon a time: a little studio with big ideas and the courage to chase them.”

Bentkey is available now on desktop, iOS, Android, AppleTV, Roku, and FireTV.

Former President Donald Trump followed 2024 rival and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in explicitly announcing on Monday his support for a ban on refugees from the Gaza Strip.

During a speech in Iowa, Trump said he would expand his “wildly successful” travel ban for “terror-plagued countries, territories, and places” if re-elected to the White House.

He later added, “We aren’t bringing in anyone from Gaza, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, or Libya, or anywhere else that threatens our security.”

Over the weekend, roughly a week after Hamas launched a deadly terrorist attack on Israel from Gaza that killed at least 30 Americans and many others, DeSantis said the United States should not accept refugees from the territory.

“We cannot accept people from Gaza into this country as refugees,” DeSantis said at an event in Iowa. “I am not going to do that. If you look at how they behave, not all of them are Hamas, but they are all anti-Semitic. None of them believe in Israel’s right to exist.”

DeSantis also called on neighboring Arab countries to take in the refugees.

With Trump explicitly declaring on Monday that Gaza would be part of an expanded travel ban, Team DeSantis had some notes to share.

“Trump literally needs a teleprompter in order to finally catch up with a position DeSantis’ took 3 days ago on Gaza refugees,” DeSantis campaign spokesman Andrew Romeo said in a post to X.

“Glad to hear the teleprompter is working again!” said the “DeSantis War Room” account, adding that DeSantis “called for this three days ago, but we welcome Donald Trump following DeSantis’ strong leadership.”

Some have pushed back by emphasizing that Trump previously called for reinstating and strengthening his travel ban that President Joe Biden overturned upon getting into office.

Stephen Miller, a top aide in Trump’s White House, recently posted to X, “did you know that President Trump stopped refugee resettlement from Syria and Somalia, and stopped jihadist refugee resettlement altogether? He also created the National Vetting center and added … new layers of screening to keep threats out of the country.”

Trump has a wide polling lead nationally over his GOP rivals in the 2024 presidential race, including DeSantis, but the Florida governor is placing much of his resources toward securing a victory in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses and turning the tide in his favor.

Elsewhere in his remarks on Monday, Trump said his administration in a second term would “cut off every penny of money we send to the Palestinians and the terrorists on day one” and stand with Israel in its fight to crush Hamas.

Trump also vowed to “revoke the student visas of radical anti-American and antisemitic foreigners at our colleges and universities” (which is similar to DeSantis’ stance on visa holders openly supporting Hamas) and “proactively send ICE to pro-Jihadist demonstrations to enforce our immigration laws and remove the violators from our country.”