"South Park" Skewers Trump (Just Like It Does Everyone Else)

The following is part of a post by Maureen Dowd in The New York Times:

CBS is, as Colbert said, “morally bankrupt.” It’s sickening to see media outlets, universities, law firms and tech companies bending the knee. 

Satirists are left to hold people accountable, and they are more than ready. Colbert’s fellow humorists jumped in to back him up, most brazenly the “South Park” creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, fresh off a Paramount deal worth over $1.25 billion. (“South Park,” popular with conservatives, does not defend liberals; it loves jeering at both sides and woke overreach.)

Its 27th season premiere — “Sermon on the ’Mount,” as in Paramount — featured Trump with a “teeny-tiny” you-know-what. It depicted the president cuddling with Satan and romancing a sheep. It ripped the Paramount deal, the CBS settlement, the Colbert firing, Trump’s “power to sue and take bribes” and the president’s manic attempt to divert attention from ties to Jeffrey Epstein, as the pedophile’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, no doubt angles for a pardon by spilling some information.

It also showed a deepfake of Trump, rotund and naked, walking in the desert, Christ-like, “for America.” As Puck’s Matthew Belloni said, “The A.I. deepfake Trump was particularly brilliant, given that the same day the episode aired, the president announced White House A.I. policy positions favoring lackluster protections against exactly this kind of dangerous technology.”

At Comic-Con on Thursday, the “South Park” creators were deadpan about their rebellious reaction to Trump’s attempt to stifle critics and wreak revenge.

“We’re terribly sorry,” Parker said, making it clear they were anything but.