{"id":14805,"date":"2025-07-26T00:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=14805"},"modified":"2025-07-26T00:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:05:25","slug":"sparks-fly-in-white-house-after-south-park-trump-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=14805","title":{"rendered":"Sparks fly in White House after ‘South Park’ Trump parody"},"content":{"rendered":"
The White House on Thursday lashed out at the creators of South Park after the bawdy satire skewered Donald Trump in an episode featuring an AI-generated version of the US president crawling naked through a desert, reported AFP.<\/p>\n

In a no-holds-barred season premiere, the animated Trump character is also seen begging Satan for sex, only to be rebuffed – in part because his penis is too small.<\/p>\n

The White House was not amused.<\/p>\n

“The Left’s hypocrisy truly has no end \u2014\u00a0for years they have come after South Park for what they labeled as ‘offence’ content, but suddenly they are praising the show,” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in a statement to Variety. “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.”<\/p>\n

Rogers maintained that the show “hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years” and is “hanging on by a thread” in a bid for attention.<\/p>\n

“President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country’s history \u2014\u00a0and no fourth-rate show can derail President Trump’s hot streak,” he added.<\/p>\n

The adult animated series, which frequently touches on hot-button issues in American life, is now in its 27th season and remains one of the world’s most valuable TV shows.<\/p>\n

The season premiere begins with the foul-mouthed Cartman appalled that NPR has been taken off the air by the president, while Randy, a parent, is disturbed by the presence of Jesus in public elementary school.<\/p>\n

Complaints to the fictional White House receive only a threat from Trump to sue the mountain town of South Park for billions of dollars.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the animated Trump is threatening to bomb Canada “like I did Iraq.”<\/p>\n

“I thought you just bombed Iran,” the Canadian prime minister replies.<\/p>\n

The episode, which sees the fictional Trump ride rough-shod over many aspects of American life, ends after the town of South Park makes a financial deal with the president that includes an agreement to make public service announcements.<\/p>\n

The AI generated short that follows \u2014\u00a0ostensibly one of those announcements \u2014\u00a0shows an overweight Trump staggering through a desert as a narrator casts him as a latter-day Jesus.<\/p>\n

The short ends with a naked Trump as the narrator says: “Trump. His penis is teeny-tiny, but his love for us is large.”<\/p>\n

Merger<\/p>\n

The episode aired days after creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone reportedly penned a $1.5 billion streaming deal with Paramount that gives the company global rights.<\/p>\n

The deal comes at a sensitive time for Paramount, which is trying to secure government approval for a multi-billion-dollar merger with entertainment company Skydance.<\/p>\n

The CBS parent caused a furor this month when it agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit Trump had brought over an interview the storied “60 Minutes” current affairs program aired with Kamala Harris ahead of last November’s election.<\/p>\n

The payment was criticised by Democrats as little more than a bribe to help smooth the merger, with Paramount initially dismissing Trump’s lawsuit as meritless.<\/p>\n

Last week CBS sparked fury after it cancelled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert whose host is a pointed critic of the president.<\/p>\n

The network insisted it was a financial decision, but opponents have painted the move as the latest example of American institutions bowing to Trump.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The White House on Thursday lashed out at the creators of South Park after the bawdy satire skewered Donald Trump in an episode featuring an AI-generated version of the US president crawling naked through a desert, reported AFP. In a no-holds-barred season premiere, the animated Trump character is also seen begging Satan for sex, only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}