U.S. Homeland Security Uses South Park to Promote ICE, South Park Trolls Trump in Response: 'Wait, So We ARE Relevant?'

South Park’s warfare with Donald Trump rumbles on, this clip aft the U.S. authorities utilized the amusement to beforehand ICE.

The authoritative Twitter / X relationship of the United States Department of Homeland Security posted a inactive from a caller South Park trailer to beforehand the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s website.

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The inactive utilized was taken from the trailer for this week’s episode, which takes connected President Trump erstwhile again. It includes a changeable of Mr. Mackey looking tense successful the backmost of an ICE van, which appears to beryllium connected its mode to a deportation of immoderate kind.

South Park past responded to troll Donald Trump, punctuation tweeting the station with the following: “Wait, truthful we ARE relevant? #eatabagofdicks”

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That’s a nonstop effect to the White House’s authoritative connection successful effect to the South Park Season 27 premiere, which featured a scathing parody of President Trump.

“The Left’s hypocrisy genuinely has nary extremity — for years they person travel aft South Park for what they labeled arsenic ‘offense’ [sic] content, but abruptly they are praising the show,” Trump White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told Rolling Stone.

“Just similar the creators of South Park, the Left has nary authentic oregon archetypal content, which is wherefore their popularity continues to deed grounds lows. This amusement hasn’t been applicable for implicit 20 years and is hanging connected by a thread with uninspired ideas successful a hopeless effort for attention. President Trump has delivered connected much promises successful conscionable six months than immoderate different president successful our country’s past — and nary fourth-rate amusement tin derail President Trump’s blistery streak.”

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are intelligibly up for a combat with the Trump administration, and are doubling down connected the topical parodies. Today’s episode, called Got A Nut, sees Mr. Mackay suffer his occupation and desperately effort to find a caller mode to marque a living. He ends up moving for ICE, though it looks similar he's having 2nd thoughts.

It’s worthy noting that this week’s occurrence is really delayed from past week. Neither Comedy Central nor Parker oregon Stone person explained the skip, but during their San Diego Comic-Con 2025 panel, 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.

The teaser trailer for tonight’s occurrence 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.

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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."

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 Comic-Con 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.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].