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South Park co-producer Trepar has apologized for ridiculing President Donald Trump to ridicune in his 27th season’s early show.
The episode, aired on Wednesday, created several jokes at the expense of the US President, which included him to paint naked in bed with the recurring character Satan.
After this broadcast, the White House described the South Park as a “fourth-door” show, which “was hanging by a thread with an unnecessary ideas in a desperate attempt”.
When asked about the response during a panel at Comic-Con International in San Diego, Parker said, with a fake-serious face: “we are so sorry.”
Parker co-producer Matt Stone, Bivis and butt-head manufacturer Mike Judge, and actor and actor Andy Samberg were participating in a panel, who co-produced the animated show Digmans!
In his statement on Thursday, The next day after the episode aired, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said: “The show is not relevant over 20 years and is hanging by a thread with an untouched ideas in a desperate attempt for meditation.
“President Trump has made more promises in just six months than any other President in the history of our country – and no one can stop the warm streak of President Trump at the fourth rate.”
Long -running satirical animated shows are often topical, targeting figures in the authority.
Guardian’s Stuart Heritage called it “The most fiery episode of South Park”, and mentioned the voiceover at the end of the show, stated about the President: “His gender is small, but his love is big for us.”
Parker told the panel discussion that he had received a note from the producers of the show about the episode before the broadcast.
“He said,” Okay, but we are blurring the penis, “and I said,” No, you are not blurring the penis, “he explained.
The episode is shown on paramount+, as follows A merger between Paramount Global and Skydance Media has recently been approved By the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
The merger between the independent film Studio and Hollywood’s oldest and most stored companies was first declared in 2024.
Approval came a few weeks later Paramount Global agreed to pay $ 16m (£ 13.5m) to settle a legal dispute with Mr. Trump In an interview, it was aired on Assistant CBS with former Vice President Kamala Harris.
It also follows the announcement of this week by CBS owned by Paramount that the show with Stephen Colbert Will Ended on air after 33 years in May 2026. Colbert is known for being one of the staunch critics of Mr. Trump on TV late at night.
Jesus makes an appearance
South Park faced a legal dispute between Paramount and the President in its latest episode – JIts creators signed a five -year deal with Paramount+ 50 new episodes for previous sessions and streaming rights.
The step comes after a one -month long bid war between major streaming platforms, and the new episode will be shown first on the Paramount Cable Channel Comedy Central, before streaming on paramount+.
Los Angeles Times and other outlets told The deal was $ 1.5BN (£ 1.1bn).
In the new episode, Mr. Trump sued the city of South Park and then Jesus – another recurring character – appears, asks them to settle.
“You guys saw what happened to CBS? … Do you really want to finish like Collbert?”
Alan Sepinwal of Rolling Stone was a fan In the episode, writing: “Yes – South Park went there – and it’s fantastic.”
He said: “The episode – title under the title ‘Mount – Mount – took a job on Trump’s passion, which is using the cases using cases to use the cases to injections, government censorships, and corporation in public schools in America, and political schools in America.”
Hollywood reporter’s Kevin Dolak called The “shocking” episode, adding it to a “cheerful”, and as expected, controversial premiere “.
“I don’t know what the next week’s episode is going to happen,” Parker later told the panel in the discussion.
“Even just three days ago, we were like this,” I don’t know if people are going to like it. “
In 2017, Parker Told Los Angeles TimesThe show fell into a “trap” of making fun of the US President in its episode every week.
“We are becoming: ‘Tune to see what we are going to say about Trump.” Matt [Stone, co-creator] And I hated it but we somehow got stuck in it, “he said.
He said at that time that he and Stone want the show to return to his roots of “children having children and being ridiculous and derogatory”.