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                              December 18, 2023

       Sean Brownridge
       Associate, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
       Walt Disney Co.
       919 Third Avenue
       New York, NY 10022

                                                        Re: Walt Disney Co.
                                                            Soliciting 
Materials filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12 by Trian Fund Management,
                                                            L.P. et al.
                                                            Filed December 14, 
2023
                                                            File No. 001-38842

       Dear Sean Brownridge:

              We have reviewed your filing and have the following comment. In 
our comment, we may
       ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your 
disclosure.

               Please respond to this comment by providing the requested 
information or advise us as
       soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our 
comment applies to your facts
       and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.

                                                        After reviewing your 
response to this comment, we may have additional comments.

       Soliciting Materials filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12

       Press Release, page 1

   1.                                                   Each statement or 
assertion of opinion or belief must be clearly characterized as such, and
                                                        a reasonable factual 
basis must exist for each such opinion or belief. Support for opinions
                                                        or beliefs should be 
self-evident, disclosed in the proxy statement or provided to the staff
                                                        on a supplemental 
basis. Please provide the support described for the following
                                                        disclosure:

                                                              that "...Disney 
has woefully underperformed its peers and its potential";
                                                              that "[m]argins 
in both Disney   s Direct-to-Consumer business and its consolidated
                                                            media operations 
significantly lag peers"; and,
                                                              that "[t]he 
Board, we believe, lacks objectivity as well as focus, alignment, and
                                                            accountability."
 Sean Brownridge
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                                                            Division of 
Corporation Finance
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