{"id":474029,"date":"2026-06-03T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/474029\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:50:11","slug":"why-south-park-creators-made-trump-the-main-villain-in-season-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/474029\/","title":{"rendered":"Why ‘South Park’ Creators Made Trump the Main Villain in Season 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Park creators TreyParker and Matt Stone revealed why they gave President DonaldTrump such a large role in the most recent season of the animated comedy. The duo opened up during a video spot for the 19th Television Academy Honor<\/a>s.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve always known that our job was, we\u2019re supposed to be the joker. You need that. You need someone just making fun of things,\u201d Parker said. \u201cIt\u2019s a great thing to be able to be. And unfortunately, right now, we have a president who thinks his job is to be the joker.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stone added, \u201cAnd so that\u2019s why we dove into the [27th and 28th] season and actually put Trump in there and Jesus and started talking about Christian nationalism and all that stuff. Because we had to let people know, for better or worse, if you like it or you don\u2019t, it\u2019s like, this is us, ok? No one\u2019s telling us [what to do].\u201d<\/p>\n

Since South Park premiered in 1997, it has been the subject of many controversies.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor 30 years, you\u2019ve always had some group trying to tell you what you can and can\u2019t say,\u201d Parker said. \u201cAnd that group has changed. That group has been liberal. That group\u2019s been Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n

The adult cartoon took a two-year hiatus until July 2025, returning with one of its most political seasons yet. The first episode of Season 27 established Trump as the antagonist, portrayed in bed with his lover, Satan.<\/p>\n

The South Park creators aim to push back on current events. In a New York Times<\/a>interview, Parker claimed, \u201cpolitics became pop culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like the government is just in your face everywhere you look,\u201d he said. \u201cWhether it\u2019s the actual government or whether it is all the podcasters and the TikToks and the YouTubes and all of that, and it\u2019s just all political and political because it\u2019s more than political. It\u2019s pop culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Parade<\/a> on Jun 3, 2026, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Park creators TreyParker and Matt Stone revealed why they gave President DonaldTrump such a large role in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[220208,146,85,46,27514,220207,220206,16083,411],"class_list":["post-474029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-animated-comedy","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-matt-stone","tag-president-donaldtrump","tag-south-park-creators","tag-television-academy","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}