‘South Park’ Lampoons Trump in Shocking Season 27 Premiere as Creators Ink $1.5 Billion Deal
South Park returned to television Wednesday after a nearly two-and-a-half-year hiatus, kicking its 27th season off with a hilarious and, as expected, controversial premiere, with the show taking on President Donald Trump, depicting him in bed with series regular Satan.
Government censorship, the death of wokeness, ChatGPT and religion in the nation’s public schools were the main topics of the season premiere. After Cartman learns of the government’s cancellation of NPR, where “liberals bitch and whine about stuff,” an assembly is called by series favorite PC Principal, who introduces a guest: Jesus Christ. Before the first act break, the town’s parents are rioting and a cutout of President Trump turns up; the plot shifts to the White House and a president at odds with Canada and lying naked in bed with Satan, with his small penis on full display.
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The long-awaited premiere episode, which was held back in a weeks-long delay as a new deal for the show was ironed out, follows Trump as he finds himself in crisis when his South Park supporters turn on him over Jesus entering the education system. After being depicted shimmying through a White House lawn party, the president finds himself on a call with Randy Marsh (Stan’s dad), which concludes with Trump threatening to sue the people of South Park for $5 billion.
Trump is back in bed with Satan in the following scene, where the devil confronts the president about rumors that his name appears on the notorious “Epstein list.”
“It’s weird that whenever it comes up, you just tell everyone to relax,” Satan says, adding that Trump reminds him a lot of someone else he dates, an allusion to his beau in the 1999 movie South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, in which Satan is romantically involved with Saddam Hussein.
By the end of the episode, Paramount and the cancellation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert come up as Jesus pleads with the people of South Park not to mess around with Trump. The town settles Trump’s lawsuit for $3.5 million, but must also produce pro-Trump public service announcements. Check out the disturbing NSFW deepfake ad below, which gives Trump’s “teeny-tiny” manhood its close-up.
The premiere of the 27th season of the enduring animated series, known to cannonball into the pool of politics and pop culture and leave no party or person safe from its scathing satire, comes just as Paramount Global and creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s company, Park County, reached a new licensing deal. Their agreement allows South Park’s new season to debut as scheduled and for a run of 50 new episodes over five years, which will all debut on Paramount-owned Comedy Central.
The companies added an expansive new streaming partnership (via their joint venture South Park Digital Studios), which will bring the South Park library to Paramount+ in the U.S., where it will remain in the HBO Max library for now, and globally. New episodes will also stream on Paramount+ in the U.S. the day after airing on Comedy Central. The deal was said to be valued at $1.5 billion.
The deal comes after a behind-the-scenes legal dispute between Park County, Paramount Global and Skydance, which is set to assume control of Paramount in the coming weeks. “This merger is a shitshow and it’s fucking up South Park. We are at the studio working on new episodes, and we hope the fans get to see them somehow,” Parker and Stone wrote in a social media post on July 2, after Comedy Central announced that the season 27 premiere had been pushed by a few weeks.
Stone, however, said earlier today that he, Parker and their team are grateful and thanked Paramount co-CEO and president of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Chris McCarthy and COO Keyes Hill-Edgar for their years of great partnership”
“We are grateful for this opportunity and deeply honored by the trust placed in us. This is about more than a contract — it’s about our commitment to this organization, our teammates, and our fans. We’re focused on building something special and doing whatever it takes to bring championships to this city.”
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