As South Park wages its roast war against President Donald “Saddam Hussein” Trump and his cronies, the South Park social media team is hitting the White House where it hurts: in the Twitter feed.
We’re only two episodes into South Park Season 27, and the most long-awaited season in South Park history is also shaping up to be its most politically charged and intentionally triggering one yet. Trey Parker and Matt Stone came out swinging in the season premiere, “Sermon on the ‘Mount,” in which they portrayed President Trump as a small-dicked middle-eastern dictator who revels in his own corruption while trampling the freedom of speech. In order to show how unbothered the President was by the criticism, the White House put out an official statement the very next day condemning South Park and claiming that the series “hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years” and is “hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention.”
With that, the Trump Administration picked a fight with the most powerful trolls on the internet (even greater than Eric Cartman and his copycat Charlie Kirk put together), one which they have been losing in humiliating fashion for almost three straight weeks as the South Park Twitter team thwarts their every attempt to play off the show’s parodies as if they’re in on the joke.
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Most recently, after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem melted down over last week’s episode “Got a Nut” before trying to use her South Park likeness to advertising the ICE recruitment campaign, the South Park Twitter account posted the cut-from-cable closing credits scene which showed Noem slaughtering an entire pet shop’s worth of puppies:
But, of course, this isn’t the first time that the South Park Twitter account has trolled the Trump Administration or Noem personally – after Noem publicly pushed back on her parody in “Got a Nut” and called the show “lazy” and “petty” for attacking her appearance instead of her job performance even though she hadn’t watched the episode (we already assumed that based on her response), the South Park Twitter account changed its profile picture to her half-melted face from the in-show portrayal.
Even before “Got a Nut” premiered, the South Park Twitter team went after the Department of Homeland Security’s attempts to play off their impending parody, specifically when the DHS Twitter account used a still from the episode’s promo to promote the ICE recruitment link. The South Park team then immediately clapped back with one of the quickest ratios in Twitter history:
Hell, even before South Park began its flame war with the far-right establishment, the show’s Twitter account was calling out its own parent company, Paramount, which had been cozying up to the Trump Administration as they lobbied for approval on their multi-billion-dollar acquisition deal with Skydance Media. When Paramount delayed the premiere of Season 27 for what we now understand to be concerns over the premiere episode damaging their relationship with Trump, Parker and Stone used the official South Park account statements to make a statement on the delay that didn’t mince words:
Anyone following the Trump-ruled government’s public communication strategy will agree that this is the most terminally online administration in the history of the Executive Branch. President Trump is the first (and hopefully last) Commander in Chief to own a social media platform, and every verified social media account representing a government agency or Republican official has spent the last six months communicating with the citizenry almost exclusively through Twitter memes.
The South Park social media team’s campaign to take the fight against Trump into the streets of social media is a brilliant move because, as we all know, the President is constantly refreshing the search results for his own name in between holes on his golf course. And, hilariously, the more that Trump and his allies try to steer the conversation over South Park‘s parodies in their favor or pretend to be in on the joke, they’re just giving the show and its Twitter masters free publicity as South Park continues to smash streaming records.
Each time when Trump has won the Presidency, his campaign has leaned on social media to swell his momentum and spread his message. Now, the South Park social media team is beating him at his own game, and he’s about three episodes away from being dumped in humiliating fashion by his boyfriend Satan.
