‘South Park’ creators explain why they satirised “joker” Donald Trump
Despite a few months of quiet after the latest politically charged season of South Park, co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have once again fired shots at Donald Trump
Parker and Stone appeared in a video spot for the 19th Television Academy Honours. In the clip, they discussed why Trump was such an integral part of the latest season.
“For 30 years, you’ve always had some group trying to tell you what you can and can’t say,” Parker began. “And that group has changed. That group has been liberal. That group’s been Republican.”
He went on, “We’ve always known that our job was, we’re supposed to be the joker. You need that. You need someone just making fun of things. It’s a great thing to be able to be.”
However, Parker has sensed that the tide has shifted, and the president has now taken up that role: “Unfortunately, right now, we have a president who thinks his job is to be the joker.”
Stone added, “And so that’s why we dove into the [27th and 28th] season and actually put Trump in there and Jesus and started talking about Christian nationalism and all that stuff.”
In light of plummeting media literacy levels, the pair felt that they had to “let people know, for better or worse, if you like it or you don’t, it’s like, this is us, ok? No one’s telling us [what to do].”
Across the new episodes, Trump found himself in many unfortunate situations; he had an entire plotline centred around his baby daddy, Satan, as well as several nude scenes centred on his small penis. In one episode, Trump has sexual intercourse with JD Vance.
The depiction riled the president up so much that the White House released a scathing statement condemning the portrayal of Trump, which began, “The Left’s hypocrisy truly has no end – for years they have come after South Park for what they labelled as ‘offence’ content, but suddenly they are praising the show.”
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