South Park creators are staying tight-lipped, promising more Trump takedowns in the new season
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South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Park say they are not backing down from rescuing US President Trump in the next season of the show – even if, in their words, the latest team trying to spy on them is now “armed.”
The Peabody Award-winning showrunners made the remarks in a recent video spot for the 19th Television Academy Honors, defending their irreverent cartoon show, as well as their decision over the past few seasons to mock the Trump presidency. They argue that South Park He has long played the role of America’s court jester — but lately, they say, Trump seems determined to fill that role himself.
“For 30 years, you’ve always had a group trying to tell you what you can and can’t say, and that group has changed,” said Parker, referring to the show’s long history of being criticized for its boundary-pushing jokes. “That group was liberal. That group was the Republicans. We always knew our job was, we had to be funny.
“You need that. You need someone who makes fun of things. It’s a great thing to be able to be. And unfortunately, right now we have a president who thinks his job is to be a joke.”
Stone continued the thought process, explaining why they chose to make Trump a villain last season.
“We had to let people know, for better or for worse, like it or not, it’s like, we’re, OK?”
A season focused on Trump
When South Park returned in 2025 after a two-year hiatus, the season premiered with Trump in bed with his lover, Satan – mirroring the way the creators portrayed former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in the 1999 film, South Park: Big, Tall and Uncut.
In a similar way, aimed for the jugular, the finale ended with a fake campaign ad featuring a naked, AI-generated Trump roaming the desert, while the narrator announced, “Trump: His penis is too small.”
US Vice President JD Vance, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and former US Attorney General Pam Bondi are also among the figures being framed in this charged political season.
Bondi didn’t respond to his inclusion on the show, but Vance did in August, writing to X, “Hey, I finally made it.” Noem, in an interview with The Glenn Beck Program podcast, criticized the show’s focus on her looks, calling it “lazy to constantly make fun of women for how they look.”
On the other hand, American officials didn’t really like what they saw last season. In response to the show’s premiere, the White House issued a statement to Rolling Stoneshouting “the hypocrisy of the Left.”
But Stone and Parker say they never worried — and were probably too burned out to continue their work.
“Now, we don’t really give a f—k,” Parker said. “From when we first started, when it was like, ‘Oh you can’t do this, this is going to interfere with your career,’ we were like, ‘Okay, we’re going to do it anyway.’
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“When you do these kinds of things, you have to be fearless,” he continued. “We will not be afraid of anyone, and if we are going to do something, we will say, we will do the funny thing, we will do the best and we will do it.”
He concluded: “And if they want to kick us out of town, our bags are full – good.”
Stone laughed and laughed:
“I’ll just go to one of my other houses.”
