“South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker admitted throughout a current pre-taped look for the nineteenth Tv Academy Honors that their foul-mouthed present has at all times served as America’s jester, just for President Donald Trump to turn out to be “the joker” himself.
“For 30 years, you’ve at all times had some group attempting to inform you what you may and may’t say, and that group has modified,” mentioned Parker. “That group’s been liberal. That group’s been Republican. We’ve at all times recognized that our job was, we’re imagined to be the joker.”
He added, “You want somebody simply making enjoyable of issues. It’s an amazing factor to have the ability to be. And sadly, proper now, we have now a president who thinks his job is to be the joker.”
The Peabody Award-winning satirists have focused just about each demographic within the e-book with their long-running animated sequence. Trump first appeared in 2001 as a then-well-known businessman; they introduced him again final 12 months to mock his presidency.
“And in order that’s why we dove into the [27th] season and really put Trump in there and Jesus and began speaking about Christian nationalism and all that stuff,” mentioned Stone. “As a result of we needed to let individuals know, higher or worse, should you prefer it otherwise you don’t, it’s like, that is us, OK?”
“South Park” returned in 2025 after a two-year hiatus with one in all its most controversial premieres, displaying Trump cavorting in mattress with Saddam Hussein and Devil — and ending with a faux marketing campaign advert displaying a unadorned, deep-faked Trump crawling by way of the desert.
The mock-campaign advert narrator promised, “Trump: His penis is teeny tiny.”
Catch the majority of their pre-taped look right here:
The present’s premiere prompted the real-life White Home to reply with a press release, and MAGA supporters appeared affronted. Nevertheless, Stone and Parker haven’t allowed intimidation to affect their inventive output.
Parker did recall considering throughout his Tv Academy Honors acceptance speech that their current episodes would “actually piss some individuals off,” and there have at all times been teams “telling you what you may and may’t say — now that group has a navy.”
Earlier within the broadcast, he summed up what it takes to be in his line of labor.
“If you’re doing this type of stuff, it’s important to be fearless,” mentioned Parker. “We’re not going to be afraid of anybody. And if we’re going to do one thing, we’re going to say, we’re going to do what’s funniest, do what’s greatest, and we’re simply going to do it.”
He concluded, “And in the event that they need to kick us out of city, our luggage are packed. It’s nice.”