South Park finally returned to Comedy Central with a searing episode taking aim at President Donald Trump.
The Season 27 premiere, titled “Sermon on the Mount,” roasts Trump’s recent settlement with Paramount along with CBS’ controversial decision to cancel The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, all while making repeated references to his genitalia.
The episode showed Trump suing the town of South Park for $5 billion for criticizing him. In the episode, Jesus convinces the town of settling with the president with a paranoid tirade that shares how series creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker really feel about Paramount’s merger with Skydance.
“You guys saw what happened to CBS? Well, guess who owns CBS? Paramount. You really want to end up like Colbert?” Jesus says in the episode. “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’s the fucking president, dude… South Park is over.”
And they didn’t stop there. The very same episode depicts Trump in bed with Satan.
“Come on, Satan, you know you can’t resist this,” Trump says in the episode as he exposes his genitalia.
“I can’t even see anything because it’s so small,” Satan fires back disgustedly.
This has been a dramatic year for the hit Comedy Central series. Parker and Stone just signed a $1.5 billion deal with Paramount Global that guarantees 50 new episodes over five years and gives Paramount+ exclusive streaming rights.
The premiere of South Park Season 27 was also inexplicably delayed by two weeks. Parker and Stone openly blamed Paramount’s “shitshow” merger.
“In response to the press release from Comedy Central about the change in premiere date for ‘South Park,’ Trey Parker & Matt Stone said – This merger is a shitshow and it’s fucking up South Park,” their statement reads. “We are at the studio working on new episodes and we hope the fans get to see them somehow.”
It was a bold decision to take shots at Trump. There is growing speculation that CBS canceled The Late Show after Stephen Colbert criticized CBS’ parent company for its controversial $16 million settlement with President Trump.
New episodes of South Park air Wednesdays on Comedy Central at 10/9c.