‘South Park’ pokes fun at Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg in raunchy new episode
South Park shows no signs of slowing down, as the third episode of season 27 continues poking fun at Donald Trump, Satan, Mark Zuckerberg, and Apple CEO Tim Cook.
In July, South Park reached a deal with Paramount+ that was reportedly worth around $1.5 billion and promised to deliver 50 new episodes. However, at the same time, Paramount had settled a controversial lawsuit with Trump for $16 million over allegations that 60 Minutes had favourably edited an interview with Kamala Harris prior to the election.
South Park‘s choice to lash out at Trump has led to the White House publicly condemning their first episode, but co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have since decided to turn the satire up a notch.
In their third episode, titled ‘Sickofancy’, Trump is again depicted with a micro-penis, as per the first episode of the season. It then reunited him in bed with Satan, where he asked the devil to have sex with him using an Apple gift received from Cook as a sex toy.
Series favourite, Towelie (a weed-smoking talking towel), also returns in the episode. In it, he teamed up with Randy Marsh to create a marijuana and tech company called Techridy using the power of ChatGPT and micro-doses of ketamine.
Towelie heads to an overly militarised Washington DC to ask Trump to legalise marijuana to expand their business. Marsh allowed Trump to keep Towelie as another bribe, but Trump disrespects the character by using him as a post-sex clean-up towel.
The micro-penis gag is repeated multiple times; Towelie strolls through Washington, DC, and takes note of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln memorials, complete with new Trump faces and unzipped pants revealing tiny genitals.
Reacting to the first episode, the White House released a statement that 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.”
White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers added that they have had no original ideas and that the show “hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention.”
At a panel after the statement was released, co-creator Parker was unfazed. He had a short reply for White House officials: “We’re terribly sorry.” He followed up the comment with a long, deadpan-comic stare.
In the second episode, the cartoon takes aim at Kristi Noem, United States Secretary of Homeland Security. In the clip, her face is also steadily melting off due to too much Botox. She responded, saying, “It’s so lazy to just constantly make fun of women for how they look. It’s only the liberals and the extremists who do that. If they wanted to criticise my job, go ahead and do that, but clearly they can’t.”
The next South Park episode will air on September 3rd.
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