After South Park made waves against Donald Trump and parent company Paramount in the Season 27 premiere, Stephen Colbert has regained a sense of optimism.
On Thursday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which was unceremoniously canceled at CBS, the 10x Emmy-winning comedian joked about the Comedy Central cartoon’s nude deepfake depiction of Trump, who has recently signed executive orders de-regulating AI.
“And I completely agree with this one,” he said in his opening monologue. “Because if the government interfered with private AI, innovators at South Park wouldn’t be able to make important videos like this one. That is a message of hope.
“That is an important message of hope for our times, and you can check it out right here,” added Colbert, displaying a QR code for HeTrumpedUs.com, linking to the scene.
Colbert’s comments came after Wednesday’s long-awaited South Park season premiere episode ‘Sermon on the ‘Mount’, which ends with a lawyer telling the townsfolk that they’ll need to pay the very litigious president $3.5 million and do some “pro-trump messaging” with a PSA.
Said PSA appears to be a clip from Deep Fake: The Movie, which co-creator Matt Stone said in 2022 was “sort of on hold,” as co-creator Trey Parker told the Los Angeles Times it “was about this guy who looked exactly like Trump because we deep fake Trump’s face onto him. And it was this whole funny thing because, of course, it ends up with Trump just naked and getting run through the wringer and everything, and that’s why it was so funny and so timely.”
The PSA ends with the tag line, “Trump: His penis is teeny tiny, but his love for us is large.”
The episode pulled no punches over Paramount’s recent dealings with Trump. Hours earlier, Parker and Stone signed a new five-year overall deal with Paramount Global through their company Park County.
Season 27 Premiere of ‘South Park’
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Also in the episode, Trump complained about the size of his manhood in an official painting before crawling into bed with and trying to be amorous with Satan. It also sees the twice-impeached president come under fire for cancelling NPR and get defensive over rumors he’s on the Epstein list.
Meanwhile, Paramount is under fire for canceling The Late Show on the heels of the company’s $16M settlement with Trump, which has been scrutinized as potential bribery by some lawmakers. Following Colbert’s ongoing jokes at the president’s expense, Trump has celebrated the talk show’s demise.
