South Park, Satan and Donald Trump
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President Donald Trump said Friday he “knows nothing about” the new South Park episode that poked fun at his administration and portrayed Trump sharing a bed with the devil. “I don’t know anything about South Park,
The long-running satire returns after a nearly 2.5-year hiatus and as a battle over its future has just concluded.
South Park” is widely known for jabbing politicians and social trends across the ideological spectrum. But the latest episode’s depiction of Trump arguably went further than usual.
The show’s co-creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, penned a five-year deal to continue the show on Wednesday, the same day the latest episode debuted. In the season premiere, a parody of CBS News’s 60 Minutes covers a story on the presence of Jesus Christ in schools, satirizing Trump’s feud with 60 Minutes that was settled earlier this month.
If operating under the shallow assumption that "South Park" is a show that exists to mock woke culture, Cartman’s despair could be seen as a meta-commentary.
South Park's newest episode tears into President Donald Trump by showing a flurry of references from Jeffrey Epstein to Paramount's recent $16 million settlement.