South Park Doubles Down on Trump Bashing With New Trailer — but Season 27 Episode 2 Will Skip This Week

After past week’s explosive Season 27 premiere, South Park volition skip this week — but according to a caller trailer, erstwhile the amusement returns adjacent week it volition instrumentality connected President Trump erstwhile again.

The trailer confirms Season 27 continues with a caller occurrence connected Wednesday, August 6 connected Comedy Central and the adjacent time connected Paramount+, which means South Park unexpectedly skips this week.

South Park's epic play continues connected Wednesday, August 6 astatine 10/9c connected Comedy Central and adjacent time connected Paramount+. pic.twitter.com/zLMHM9J4aP

— South Park (@SouthPark) July 29, 2025

Neither Comedy Central nor South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone person explained the skip, but it’s worthy noting that during their San Diego Comic-Con 2025 sheet past week, which took spot the time aft the Trump-skewering occurrence aired, Parker said they were unsure what the adjacent occurrence would be, revealing the determination was “super stressful.”

Parker and Stone make each occurrence of South Park week by week, which makes for a chaotic production, but topical shows.

It’s besides worthy noting that the creators precocious admitted that the Season 27 trailer that came retired successful April included footage made conscionable for that trailer, and not from the episodes. “You earnestly deliberation we went and made a clump of shows up of clip and we’re banking them for later?” they said. “We conscionable made thing up and we’re like, this is what we’re doing! And we’re not doing immoderate of that.”

— IGN (@IGN) July 26, 2025

All eyes are connected South Park aft its Season 27 premiere went truthful hard connected Trump that the White House issued a connection successful response.

The teaser shows Trump groping Satan’s limb nether a array during a nationalist meal event. Satan doesn’t look similar he’s having a large time. The Season 27 premiere showed Trump lying successful furniture with Satan, truthful it looks similar their narration volition beryllium a moving taxable during the show.

But that country wasn’t the main talking constituent coming retired of the premiere. Rather, it was a country showing a live-action Trump shuffling done the godforsaken earlier removing each of his clothes. “His penis is teeny tiny, but his emotion for america is large,” a “South Park Pro-Trump” PSA voiceover says.

During the Comic-Con panel, Parker revealed the originative duo insisted Trump’s penis was shown successful each its glory, adjacent though they received a enactment from the web asking for it to beryllium blurred. “They were like, okay, but we're gonna blur the penis. And I'm like, no, you’re not going to blur it."

Parker and Stone dodged blurring Trump's penis by adding small eyes and turning it into a character. But adjacent doing that "was a full speech with a batch of grown up radical for astir 4 f***ing days. It's a character!"

Parker and Stone were past jokingly warned that determination was a subpoena waiting for them among the cards containing sheet questions. The response: "That's good man, I'm ready."

In a caller tweet, below, South Park revealed behind-the-scenes photos of the Trump godforsaken scene, which confirms it was filmed connected determination alternatively than generated with AI, arsenic immoderate had thought.

A small down the scenes. pic.twitter.com/M25RjoRooE

— South Park (@SouthPark) July 29, 2025

The F.C.C. precocious approved Skydance’s $8 cardinal merger with Paramount, which had needed Trump medication approval. Neither Parker nor Stone addressed the merger, which they had criticized for delaying South Park Season 27's merchandise date, during the panel, nor did they respond to the White House's statement.

However, Parker and Stone person a big-money woody of their own: a reported $1.5 cardinal declaration to marque 50 episodes of South Park implicit 5 years for Paramount.

Image credit: Comedy Central / YouTube.

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