The creators of South Park have a message for all the MAGA bros out there who think they’ve gone woke… they’re still standing in the middle, judging everyone!
Trey Parker and Matt Stone found themselves back in the middle of controversy yet again a couple months ago when their new season began… and came out swinging against Donald Trump!
Their earlier attempt at mocking Trump, in his first term, saw Mr. Garrison as a stand-in for the Celebrity Apprentice star-turned-politician. This time the gloves came off and they just started using the President’s likeness, addressing his policies and proclivities directly.
This Trump character is animated exactly like Saddam Hussein was in 1999’s South Park movie, and that isn’t an accident. They highlight the juxtaposition of Trump throwing opulent parties with the world’s wealthiest while his decisions devastate the normal people of their quite mountain town. Everything is fodder for some of their darkest humor ever — the cruelty of ICE, the disturbing Epstein ties, the grifter subculture he attracts… It’s some of the most incisive and unflinching commentary ever, and it’s at a time when a lot of networks, news and comedy alike, are bending the knee instead.
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In a new interview with The New York Times over the weekend, Trey and Matt explained the show’s decision to have a nakedly anti-Trump season. Trey argued:
“It’s not that we got all political. It’s that politics became pop culture.”
They talked about trying to do other thing, but found “there’s no getting away from [MAGA].” This was what was on everyone’s mind:
“It’s like the government is just in your face everywhere you look. Whether it’s the actual government or whether it is all the podcasters and the TikToks and the YouTubes and all of that, and it’s just all political and political because it’s more than political. It’s pop culture.”
Of course, this was all as Paramount, their parent network, was cozying up to Trump — just in time to get their merger approved, as Stephen Colbert pointed out before being canceled unceremoniously. Matt explained they’ve never backed down from controversial topics — they love it:
“Trey and I are attracted to that like flies to honey. Oh, that’s where the taboo is? Over there? OK, then we’re over there.”
But… a lot of longtime viewers are confused. Weren’t these the guys making fun of the militant left with characters like PC Principal? Yep. But they say they haven’t moved politically at all. They were never right-wingers or lefties. They think YOU were the ones who got weird! Trey stated:
“We’re just very down-the-middle guys. Any extremists of any kind we make fun of. We did it for years with the woke thing. That was hilarious to us. And this is hilarious to us.”
Yeah, that sounds like South Park alright. Whether it’s blasting Scientology, censorship, psychics, Disney… they’ve always taken a look around at whatever seemed the most insane and just gone after it mercilessly. And that’s all they’re doing now. They haven’t “gone woke” and don’t have “Trump Derangement Syndrome” — they’re still in the same place. It’s the country that went nuts.
Oh, and for those sick of seeing Trump on South Park? Trey says it won’t be forever:
“You know, next year will be different. If there’s one thing we know, it is that our show will be a lot longer than [Trump’s administration]. So, we just got to do this for now.”
Anyone else find that oddly comforting?
[Image via South Park Studios/YouTube.]
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