White House Responds To Savage ‘South Park’ Episode— Has Total Meltdown

The reaction in the White House to the "South Park" season premiere has not been positive.


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Comedy Central’s South Park, in its season premiere on Wednesday night, depicted President Donald Trump as an out-of-control zealot, threatening to sue everyone under the sun for specious reasons, while also seeking to impose Christian theocracy on the United States. There were also multiple references to the president having small genitalia, as well as his spot in the Jeffrey Epstein files.

It was a big shift for a show that has not spent a lot of time directly attacking Trump over the years, and has also gained numerous conservative fans.

According to a report, the morning after the show, the reaction in the White House to the show was strongly negative.

Rolling Stone reported Thursday that “the White House is melting down” over the South Park episode.

“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,” Trump White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told Rolling Stone in a statement, seemingly bothered that “the left” has been critical of shows with political sentiments with which they disagree, while praising things that they agree with.

“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. This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention. President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country’s history — and no fourth-rate show can derail President Trump’s hot streak,” the statement included.

South Park recently agreed to a $1.5 billion streaming and content deal with Paramount, a company that is cutting costs across the board, so the show is clearly far from “record lows” or irrelevant.

Rolling Stone also asked White House sources if clips from the episode had been circulated among staff, and were told, “of course.” One adviser, in an inversion of Rogers’ statement, called the episode “disappointing,” coming from a “longtime fan.”

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