{"id":288010,"date":"2025-07-24T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288010\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:30:10","slug":"south-park-targets-paramount-after-signing-1-5bn-deal-and-skewers-trump-he-can-do-anything-to-anyone-south-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288010\/","title":{"rendered":"South Park targets Paramount after signing $1.5bn deal and skewers Trump: \u2018He can do anything to anyone\u2019 | South Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Park has kicked off its 27th season with a blistering episode taking aim at Donald Trump<\/a> and its newly minted parent company, Paramount, just one day after signing a $1.5bn deal with the network.<\/p>\n

The premiere episode, \u201cSermon on the Mount,\u201d sees Trump in bed with series regular Satan and covers topics including Trump\u2019s lawsuit against Paramount, the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, wokeness, Trump\u2019s attacks on Canada and more.<\/p>\n

Unlike other characters, Trump is depicted as an actual photo of the US president on an animated body. There is also an extended scene featuring a hyper-realistic, deepfake video<\/a> of Trump, completely naked, walking in a desert. There are repeated suggestions that Trump\u2019s genitalia are small.<\/p>\n

The episode centers on the presence of Jesus in South Park\u2019s schools, a story covered by a parody of 60 Minutes, in a clear satire of Paramount\u2019s recent embroilment with Trump over the flagship CBS News show. The two hosts refer nervously to \u201cthe president, who is a great man\u201d and who \u201cis probably watching\u201d.<\/p>\n

When South Park\u2019s parents protest to Trump that they don\u2019t want Jesus in schools, and Trump threatens to sue them for $5bn, Jesus begs them to settle with the president. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to come back and be in the school, but I had to because it was part of a lawsuit and the agreement with Paramount,\u201d Jesus says through gritted teeth.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou guys saw what happened to CBS? Well, guess who owns CBS? Paramount. You really want to end up like Colbert? You guys got to stop being stupid… He also has the power to sue and take bribes and he can do anything to anyone. It\u2019s the fucking president, dude… South Park is over.\u201d<\/p>\n

The townspeople eventually agree to pay Trump a much smaller $3.5m, but also must create \u201cpro-Trump messaging\u201d \u2013 leading to the aforementioned video of Trump wandering in a desert, stripping naked.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the companies South Park Digital Studios and Park County, which are run by South Park\u2019s creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, announced a licensing deal with Paramount Global. The $1.5bn (\u00a31.1bn) agreement confirms 50 new episodes on Comedy Central over five years, to exclusively stream on Paramount+ worldwide. The entire South Park library will also be made available on Paramount+ in the US.<\/p>\n

Dylan Byers, a senior correspondent at the media organization Puck, wrote on social media<\/a> after the episode\u2019s release: \u201cHard to think of anything more defiant in media & entertainment recently than Trey Parker & Matt Stone going scorched earth on Paramount in a South Park season premiere on the heels of netting a $1.5 billion deal with the very same company.\u201d<\/p>\n

This deal also comes after recent contentious disputes involving Paramount. Skydance, which is controlled by the son of Trump ally Larry Ellison, is vying to take over Paramount Global, as well as Park Country. (Early this month Parker and Stone criticised the merger for postponing the season 27 premiere, writing<\/a>: \u201cThis merger is a shitshow and it\u2019s fucking up South Park. We are at the studio working on new episodes, and we hope the fans get to see them somehow.\u201d)<\/p>\n

The merger, however, requires the approval from the Trump-controlled Federal Communications Commission. When Paramount controversially settled a lawsuit with Trump<\/a> for $16m over allegations that CBS News, which is owned by Paramount, committed \u201celection interference\u201d in its editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, some critics alleged another example of capitulation by media companies hoping to curry favor with the US president.<\/p>\n

Then three days after Colbert, a high-profile critic of Trump, branded the deal \u201ca big fat bribe\u201d on his late-night CBS show, Paramount and CBS announced it had cancelled<\/a> the show.<\/p>\n

The South Park premiere alludes constantly to the events, with Cartman learning that his favorite radio show on NPR \u2013 where \u201cliberals bitch and whine about stuff\u201d \u2013 has been cancelled by Trump. \u201cThe government can\u2019t cancel the show. I mean, what show are they going to cancel next?\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s character is also asked directly by Satan about the the \u201cEpstein list\u201d, referring to the unreleased files held by the US government relating to the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, who was friends with Trump<\/a> for 15 years. A political firestorm has erupted since the Trump administration\u2019s<\/a> recent decision not to release any more documents.<\/p>\n

Satan asks Trump directly if it\u2019s on the Epstein list. \u201cIt\u2019s weird that whenever it comes up, you just tell everyone to relax,\u201d Satan says.<\/p>\n

The Guardian has contacted the Stone, Parker and the White House for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Park has kicked off its 27th season with a blistering episode taking aim at Donald Trump and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-288010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114908458602460585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}