After the series premiere of season 27 of “South Park,” the White House released a statement the next day.
“The Left’s hypocrisy truly has no end — for years they have come after “South Park” for what they labeled as ‘offensive’ 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.”
The premiere of season 27 comes after co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone struck a $1.5 billion contract with Paramount to produce 10 episodes per year, and have “South Park” exclusively streaming on Paramount+.
The Trump administration has had harsh reactions to the premiere.
“The show hasn’t been relevant in over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention,” Rogers said.
Season 27 premiered on Wednesday, July 23 with the first “South Park” episode in over two years. It centers around Power Christian Principal bringing Jesus Christ into school. After learning Jesus is at the school, along with finding out that president Donald Trump is suing anyone who speaks out against him, Randy, Stan’s father and the other citizens of South Park protest.
The episode pokes fun at Trump — showing him in bed with Satan, along with Paramount — South Park’s airing company.
This comes about one month after it was announced that “Late Night with Stephen Colbert” was getting cancelled by Paramount after Colbert went on a rant about President Trump, and his airing company Paramount.
Trump sued Paramount over the editing of an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris “60 Minutes,” with Trump claiming that “60 Minutes” deceptively edited the interview to interfere with the 2024 election. Paramount settled with Trump for $16 million.
On air, Stephen Colbert called the settlement a “big fat bribe” while telling the president to “go **** yourself.” This is what led to the show getting cancelled by Paramount.
Episode one speaks on the cancellation, with Jesus telling citizens of South Park to not protest because of what happened to Stephen Colbert. The recent episode of “South Park” has sparked immense controversy among fans and the media because of its crude humor and pokes at politics.
This isn’t the first time “South Park” has faced controversy.
Episodes “Super Best Friends,” “201” and “202” were all taken off air because of their depiction of the prophet Muhammed, which according to Hadith, an Islamic record of traditions and stories about the prophet Muhammed, is strictly prohibited. This led Parker and Stone to receive bomb and death threats.
Season 27 continues on with two more episodes dropping.
Episode two concentrates on Mr. Mackey, the school counselor, getting fired because of funding cuts and becoming a Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, while also attacking Kristi Noem, director of Homeland Security.
Episode three focuses on Towlie visiting Washington D.C., continuing the pokes towards President Trump. Episode four touches on the Labubu craze with the students of “South Park” buying Labubus and freaking out about the tariffs on them. New episodes for Season 27 premiere every other Wednesday night at 9 pm on Comedy Central and stream the next day on Paramount+.
Paramount has not responded to any comments over “South Park’s” recent controversies, however some fans predict that censorship is not out of the question.
