The creators of South Park have mocked Donald Trump after winning the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program.
The show, which airs on Paramount+ in the UK, has aimed most of its jokes in recent seasons at the US President with storylines depicting him in a relationship with Satan, having a micro penis, and having sex with Vice President J.D. Vance.
Taking a jibe on South Park‘s Instagram account, a graphic was posted with Trump clutching an Emmy trophy with his pants and underwear around his ankles with the message: “You finally got your Emmy.”
It was also captioned: “Congratulations to Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and the entire South Park team on their Emmy win for Outstanding Animated Program!”
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The post appears to mock Trump’s own track record on Emmy victories after he was previously nominated for the US version of The Apprentice for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program in 2004 and 2005, but failed to win.
The creators of South Park recently said they initially intended to stop mocking Trump after one episode, but kept going after the pushback they received.
Last July, The White House hit back at the animated series, saying in a statement at the time: “This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years”. According to Trey Parker and Matt Stone, it was this reaction that inspired them to continue.
“We were just going to do that first show with the Trump stuff,” Parker said (via The Hollywood Reporter). “We laid into him so hard, and the thing became: ‘Well, who’s the bully now?’ It became this just totally juvenile joke of like, ‘We’re not gonna stop. We’re going to do it every single week.’”
He continued: “Even when everyone’s like, ‘OK, guys, move on,’ [we’re] like, ‘Nope, we’re not moving on. We’re going to keep going, going, going.’ That became the joke.”
In a separate interview with The New York Times, Parker explained that they put Trump in 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 added. “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.”
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