“South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone did a quick video spot for the 19th Television Academy Honors, which aired on May 20. In it, they discussed their role in the world of comedy and explained why they made President Donald Trump a main character in the latest season of the iconic animated series.
“For 30 years, you’ve always had some group trying to tell you what you can and can’t say,” Parker said. “And that group has changed. That group has been liberal. That group’s been Republican. We’ve always known that our job was, we’re supposed to be the joker. You need that. You need someone just making fun of things. It’s 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.”
Stone then chimed in, “And so that’s 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’t, it’s like, this is us, ok? No one’s telling us [what to do].”
After a two-year hiatus, “South Park” exploded onto airwaves in July 2025 with one of the most explicit and politically charged seasons in its history. The Season 27 premiere introduced Trump as a major antagonist and showed him in bed with his lover and baby daddy, Satan. The episode ended with a PSA featuring a deep-faked naked Trump bumbling through the desert. It was capped with the slogan, “Trump: His penis is teeny-tiny, but his love for us is large.”
In an interview with the New York Times, Parker explained they added Trump to “South Park” not because “we got all political,” but instead because “politics became pop culture.”
“It’s like the government is just in your face everywhere you look,” Parker said. “Whether it’s the actual government or whether it is all the podcasters and the TikToks and the YouTubes and all of that, and it’s just all political and political because it’s more than political. It’s pop culture.”