Now in its twenty seventh season, South Park, the grownup animated sequence that takes photographs at popular culture and public figures, has managed to bother the MAGA devoted as soon as extra. In a brand new episode mocking President Donald Trump’s D.C. regulation enforcement takeover, many MAGA supporters are expressing disdain with South Park’s jokes.
South Park didn’t pull any punches in taking digs at President Trump and his federal takeover of D.C.’s police division, citing widespread crime and violence that his facet claims is ravaging the Nation’s Capital. Regardless of reducing cases of crime and a usually issue-free nightlife scene in D.C., Trump has seized the reins of regulation enforcement energy and deployed Nationwide Guard troops, principally from “pink” states, to assist help the hassle.
The episode options South Park character Towelie, who roams the streets of D.C. amid armed guardsmen and rolling tanks as if the town has develop into a burning struggle zone. The episode additionally lampoons the so-called “tech bros” who’ve discovered new relevance and footing underneath the brand new administration. Trump additionally takes a dig, including to what the present’s creator began the season off with by suggesting the president and Devil are lovers.
MAGA and conservative-leaning figures on social media are lower than impressed with South Park‘s newest season, framing the sequence as on its approach out of the mainstream.
On X, we’ve gathered reactions to the present’s newest D.C.-centered episode beneath.
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