The creators of South Park have said they initially intended to stop mocking Donald Trump after one episode, but will keep going after the pushback they received.
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The show, which airs on Paramount+ in the UK, aimed most of the jokes in recent seasons at US President Donald Trump. Storylines have depicted him in a relationship with Satan, having a micro penis, and having sex with Vice President J.D. Vance.
Last July, The White House hit back, saying in a statement: “This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years”. According to Trey Parker and Matt Stone, speaking at an Emmy event in Los Angeles on Tuesday (May 19) it was this reaction that inspired them to continue.
“We were just going to do that first show with the Trump stuff,” Parker said (via The Hollywood Reporter). “We laid into him so hard, and the thing became: ‘Well, who’s the bully now?’ It became this just totally juvenile joke of like, ‘We’re not gonna stop. We’re going to do it every single week.’”
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He continued: “Even when everyone’s like, ‘OK, guys, move on,’ [we’re] like, ‘Nope, we’re not moving on. We’re going to keep going, going, going.’ That became the joke.”
Aside from the jokes made within the show, creatives associated with South Park have also embarked on other projects to mock the Trump Administration. Toby Morton, who was a writer and occasional voice actor on the show in the early 2000s, made headlines by buying up website names associated with Trump and building a site that satirises him.
Most recently, Morton bought the domain DraftBarronTrump.com and created a comedic website encouraging the government to send Donald Trump’s son, Barron, into the country’s current war with Iran. The site features images of the US President apparently asleep during White House briefings.