“South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are clearly not achieved with the Trump administration.
The satirical animated collection stoked ire from the White House with their debut episode final week, which mercilessly roasted President Donald Trump, and its latest goes after members of his administration.
Wednesday evening’s episode titled “Got A Nut” options recurring character Mr. Mackay, a faculty counselor, dropping his job due to cuts to the Department of Education.
When he takes a job with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), he and his fellow new workers watch a video of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in which she explains that she put her pet down by capturing it in the face.
Noem made headlines in 2024 after she wrote in her memoir that she had shot one among her canines as a result of she deemed it “untrainable” and “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with.”
The Noem character shoots canines all through the episode as a working gag.
The episode additionally takes goal at conservative podcast tradition with a storyline involving a fourth grader named Clyde who finds fame as a White nationalist podcaster, which enrages Eric Cartman, who’s the present’s resident bigot.
Cartman tries to out do Clyde’s offensive feedback about minorities, ladies and Jewish individuals with some trolling and by declaring himself to be a “master debater.”
Clyde and Mr. Mackay’s work (Mackay participates in ICE raids the place Noem screams, “Only detain the brown ones!”) is rewarded with a visit to Mar-a-Lago the place they’re greeted by Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who’re portrayed in white fits in nod to Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize’s characters in the hit Nineteen Eighties tv collection “Fantasy Island.”
Parker and Stone have used their provocative collection to specific their apparent displeasure with the administration.
White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers downplayed “South Park’s” debut episode, which aired on July 23 and skewered Trump, in an announcement to NCS.
“This 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,” the assertion learn. “President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country’s history – and no fourth-rate show can derail President Trump’s hot streak.”
Weeks earlier than the new season debuted, Parker and Stone expressed their dissatisfaction about the deliberate acquisition of Paramount Global by Skydance Media and its impression on their contract negotiations.
“This merger is a s**tshow and it’s f**king up ‘South Park,’” the two wrote in a publish shared on social media. “We are at the studio working on new episodes and we hope the fans get to see them somehow.”
Paramount additionally confronted backlash for his or her community CBS’s announcement that it was canceling “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” which some speculated was an try and appease Trump in order that he wouldn’t block the merger. Colbert has been essential of the President on his late evening present.
Skydance Media and Paramount Global announced Thursday that the merger had been accomplished.