In the season premiere of their show South Park on Wednesday, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone went scorched-earth on Donald Trump, the second Trump era, and their own parent company, Paramount. The episode, the Comedy Central show’s first new show in two years, arrived shortly after the creators reached a $1.5 billion new deal with the company, just a day before the government approved Paramount’s merger with Skydance.
The episode, which depicted Trump as unhinged, constantly threatening to sue everyone on Earth, attempting to impose Christian theocracy, and literally in bed with Satan, drew a strong rebuke from the White House.
“The Left’s hypocrisy truly has no end – for years they have come after ‘South Park’ for what they labeled as ‘offense’ [sic] content, but suddenly they are praising the show,” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in a statement to the media. “Just like the creators of ‘South Park,’ the Left has no authentic or original content, which is why their popularity continues to hit record lows.”
#SouthPark creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone say “we’re very sorry” when asked about last night’s episode. #SDCC #SouthParkSeason27 #Paramount pic.twitter.com/usHSPBM3nF
— Karra Small (@karrasmallmedia) July 25, 2025
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Then, on Thursday, Parker and Stone reacted to the controversy and, in jest, apologized.
“We’re terribly sorry,” Parker said, as the creators spoke at the San Diego Comic-Con, as part of a panel that also included Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill creator Mike Judge and actor Andy Samberg. This was followed by a “deadpan stare,” according to The Guardian, and someone in the crowd shouting “no, you’re not!”
Parker added that the depiction of Trump as nude in the show was controversial even within their own team.
“They said, ‘OK, but we’re gonna blur the penis,’ and I said, ‘No you’re not gonna blur the penis,’” Parker said.
Per Stone, they decided to put eyes on the penis.
“If we put eyes on the penis, we won’t blur it. That was a whole conversation with grown-up people for four fucking days,” Stone said.
South Park episodes are known for being produced very quickly.
News: One of New Paramount’s first moves under David Ellison will be a big overall deal to make movies with…wait for it…Will Smith. https://t.co/nH6991sU37
— Matthew Belloni (@MattBelloni) July 25, 2025
In addition, Puck’s Matthew Belloni reported this week that the recent deal between the creators and Paramount came as the result of “one of the most contentious talent negotiations I’ve covered.”
“It’s a bit surprising—and, I suppose, a good sign?—that last night’s South Park episode aired at all,” Belloni writes. “Not that creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker don’t poke at the president regularly, and often in crude and outrageous fashion. But a naked Trump demanding sex from Satan? Multiple shots of the president’s “tiny penis” and an image of him violating a goat? A storyline involving a multimillion-dollar settlement of a bogus Trump lawsuit with explicit references to Paramount and Colbert, all culminating in an A.I.-generated Trump, sweaty and nude, talking to his own penis in the desert?”
Belloni also reported that David Ellison, the incoming head of the combined Skydance/Paramount, did not watch the episode in advance, although he was told that the episode would be “disparaging” to the president. The co-CEOs did watch it, and greenlight it to air.
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