Bulwark Takes - WOW! South Park Just NUKED Trump

Episode Date: July 24, 2025

South Park didn’t just go after Trump—they obliterated him. Tim Miller and Sonny Bunch break down the season premiere, from Trump’s cartoon lawsuit frenzy to his desert PSA with googly eyes. Yes, really.

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And they went hard in the paint at tiny dicks Donald Trump. And these are these guys have kind of avoided Trump discourse, not completely, but you know, just they've even said in interviews about how challenging it is to spoof Trump, you know, because of the nature of Donald Trump. But for a few reasons, there's been a change of tune. And when I saw the stuff coming across last night night before I went to bed, I got to tell you, it is fucking hilarious. They really go after Trump's little peepee and his relationship with the devil.

Little Saddam Hussein throwback as well. Sonny, you've watched the whole episode this morning. Before we get into kind of the meta convo about how this plays into the paramount and the censorship and the lawsuits, before we get into all that, let's just tell the people what the South Park boys did. Aaron Norris Well, it's a very funny episode. This is the first episode in two and a half seasons. As you said, they have always come at Trump from a sideways angle.

In the last season, they had Mr. Garrison running for president as kind of a Trump figure. He had the red hat and the, you know, tan makeup, etc. But they've always been a little bit hesitant about going directly at Trump just because as you say, it's a it's hard to satirize somebody like Donald Trump, but be also everybody else was doing it like there was no shortage of people mocking Donald Trump, so they always stayed away from it. This season, they went head on directly at Donald Trump. If long-time fans of the show will remember how they treated Saddam Hussein, they used actual images of Saddam Hussein and gave him a flappy head and a funny voice,

and had him in bed with Satan. They've literally put Donald Trump into this same exact position this season as the season begins. The thrust of the episode is the boys at South Park are very confused because, first off, Cartman can't listen to NPR, which he loves because it was always full of women and minorities complaining about things. Their tears of sadness brought him great joy. And he's like, what's happened? And they say, well, Donald Trump has canceled NPR.

And he's like, what? Donald Trump can't cancel a show? Wink wink nudge and we can get into that. And from there, Jesus has been reintroduced to South Park. He's in the schools. Jesus is in the schools. He's in the schools. And the character who is known as PC Principal,

who was introduced a few years back, as kind of a frat bro type, but woke, like a woke bully, one wouldn't describe him as, a woke schooled, woke bully, has re-granted as Power in Christ principle. And the whole point of the episode is to capture the vibe shift of how the person who is telling you what you can and cannot say has gone from, you know, again, kind of the woke left, whatever, you know, the PC principle type, to now the woke right, right? It's the folks on the right who say,

you can't say this about Donald Trump, he'll sue you. He'll sue you. And that is what happens to you. Every time somebody says something about Donald Trump or anytime somebody accurately in the context of the show paints or draws his very small member, he threatens lawsuits. He says, I'm gonna sue you for $5 billion.

You can't say that about me. You can't say that about me. And by the end of the episode, this is the clip that was going around last night. The people of South Park have put together a PSA, a public service announcement as part of their settlement with Donald Trump, who has threatened to sue the town for $5 billion, in which Donald Trump is wandering through the desert, suffering for the sins of the people he's he's thirsty he needs he needs sustenance he's taking off his clothes and at the end at the end of the PSA again this is so it's so childish to say out loud but it's very very funny a tiny little Donald Trump penis with cartoon eyes on the end of it says I'm Donald Trump and I approve this message

and I'm sorry. No, that's wrong, Sonny. I've only seen the clips. You've seen the whole episode, but just because I've watched the clip 90 times, I can tell you how that actually ends. Oh, okay. It is the VO, voice of God for the PSA, and it says, Donald Trump, his penis is teeny tiny, but his love for us is large.

That's a good point. I'm sorry. That is Tim. You've watched this more times than I have. Probably. But no, it's the whole episode. The whole episode is very funny. And, you know, again, we can get into the whole Paramount CBS of it all, but it goes

to show you can do, you can make fun of Trump and it can be very funny. And I am going to be very curious to see if he, what happens, what happens with the Paramount CBS, uh, sale and the Viacom merger and all that stuff, what happens with all that going forward is going to be kind of interesting. I got to tell you, if I was Donald Trump, I would ignore this because it is so brutal and like these guys are so good that Trump's superpower in the in a political fight right is he's always fighting with dorks I say this is somebody that has been that has tried you know that was there in 2016

with Jeb God love him Jeb's a dork you know Donald Trump had this advantage where everybody else plays by the rules and he doesn't. He doesn't give an F. He can be like, whatever, Hillary eats babies. Remember the one time Marco Rubio tried this and made a comment about Donald Trump's tiny hands, meaning he has a tiny penis. Rubio apologized two days later because he got shamed. Donald Trump is unshamable, and so he can, even though he is weak, he can take an alpha posture

in a fight with other politicians because he's willing to do stuff that they're not, frankly. And also because he's been on TV and stuff, he's a pretty good insult comic, and it doesn't really work for me, but it's better, even when other politicians try, it just feels phony. It's more authentic to him. He is an insult comic bully.

He doesn't have that advantage against these guys. You can push around. What it's going to be like, oh, Mountain tray with their stupid, you know, stupid cartoon. Ike, it draws attention to this. Like there's the other scene that was going around, which was where Donald Trump commissions a painting. And like he goes in the lighthouse and the painter has painted him with this fat,

distended belly and tiny dick. And he comes in, he's like, I'm going to sue the painter. I'm going to sue this. I'm going to sue that. And it's just like, I don't know, man. I don't think the Dan Scavino bleats at South Park's expense. Now, his play might be in this, I think, gets us into the politics of this to go after the suits, right?

And to try to create issues with that and not to go at South Park directly. But this context, as we keep kind of alluding to, is Paramount is trying to have this merger happen. They got bullied on 60 Minutes on the stupidest lawsuit in history and they succumbed. By the way, funny aside here, there's a whole riff in this episode about 60 Minutes being terrified to say anything about Donald Trump. They sent 60 Minutes to the town to cover the lawsuit. And they're like, I don't know, these guys are a bunch of losers who were mad at

Donald Trump. Who's a great man. Who's a great president. Again, it's just it's spot on. Absolutely perfect criticism of the folks who just gave them one point five billion dollars. Right. It's wild. So South Park is on, you know, as part of the Paramount family. They just re-upped with them for what, five years for 1.5 billion?

Five years, 300 million dollars per to get exclusive rights to the library to stream at Paramount Plus, but also to make 10 new episodes a year. Basically they're getting paid, Matt and Trey, my understanding is, they're getting paid $250 million to them to make 10 new episodes a year. Wow. It's a good deal. It's a good business. You can get it. We're not doing that. We're not doing that kind of rev on YouTube yet. So subscribe to the feed and tell your friends. It's a good deal if you can get it. Well deserved for those guys, though. So anyway, so they're part of this Paramount, the merger still hasn't happened. Paramount was bullied into submission over 60

minutes. They paid off, I don't know what was 16 million or whatever in damages for editing the Kamala Harris interview, like literally the stupidest lawsuit in history. And yet, you know, there is a lot of other stuff happening with Paramount and CBS. Like there's some discussion that CBS is totally going to revamp their news department, that they're getting rid of all DEI, they're going to bring in some conservative potentially from this outlet, the free press to like manage the news department to we'll see if that actually happens. But like, they're doing all these things to suck up to Donald Trump and to appeal to Donald

Trump. And then these guys come out on their first episode and they offered the most withering, childish mock of Donald Trump imaginable. And I mean, who knows? Again, like I guess his choice is to either ignore it or to try to use it to garner more concessions out of CBS or who knows, maybe threats and pulls it.

How that plays out is as interesting as anything. What do you make of it? I don't know. I mean, look, all of these, everything that is going to happen with Paramount and CBS is going to happen kind of behind the scenes with the various commissioners and whatever. You remember that you've seen the movie Casino, right? Of course, yeah. You remember the scene in Casino where Ace goes and he thinks he's going to get his gambling

license and then the board just immediately votes no on that? That is what could end up happening to paramount, right? Just kind of a quick no vote without any real explanation, which will then be followed a day later by Donald Trump just putting it out on Truth Social like, yeah, I tanked it. I tanked it because of South Park. What are you going to do now? And like, whatever. But you say Donald Trump should ignore this. And I think that that is the kind of traditionally correct response, right? Since Donald Trump never does the traditionally correct thing. There's no reason why he can't treat this like just another reality TV feud for him

to rile up his base. Look at you thought the South Park guys were on your side, MAGA. You thought that they were anti-woke. They're the wokenest people out there. They're making fun of me. They're making fun of you. They're making fun of me. They're making fun of you. They're making fun of Christianity. They're making fun of Jesus Christ.

And that's another element of this episode, which is like the commodification of Christ. Like there's a party at the White House. Right. There's a party at the White House and everybody's wearing crucifixes and it's just like women in bikinis and Kid Rock. And, you know, it's like, it's disgusting, but it's also funny because it's true. It's like, this is the world in which we live. Yeah, we'll have to see. I'm interested to find out what he decides to do because I just

even like kind of spitballing potential responses like they all just seem so sad compared to what Matt and Trey just did to him. I don't know, right? Like it seems a little pathetic and sad. Now, again, sometimes he doesn't care about that. Like he does things that are pathetic all the time because he has a cult following and so they make it seem like it's really great in their little bubble.

But I don't know. I mean, I think the other interesting element that I wanna talk about with you about this really quick, about the vibe shift, is this is another thing that's kind of getting out of control for him a little bit. And it relates to the Epstein story is important in the kind of narrow sense of the victims. I get justice, right?

It's important. If any story where the president of the United States and. It's important. If any story where the president of the United States and the Justice Department is covering something up that is potential illegality by the president is a story in itself. To me, the broader meta-narrative of it is it has provided this opportunity for all of these contrarian types, libertarian type people that are like, are not really mapped to either party, you know, and people say like, what is the Joe Rogan of the left or Joe Rogan used to be the Joe Rogan of the left, right? And he's kind of gone back and forth like these types of folks and like, you know, they

are all different kinds of stripes, but like, but you can sort of lump in together like the non-political MAGA, like the Rogan and Theovon and stuff, or whatever you call it, MAGA, but this anti-woke libertarian streak in the culture. The people who don't want to be told what they can and can't say. Yeah, that's a good way to sum it up. Those folks were, for reasons that range from legitimate to kind of stupid, very upset at the left for the last,

going back to COVID, basically. And it ties a lot to some of the COVID rules and restrictions. And now, if Trump is covering up the Epstein thing, and the South Park guys can inject this kind of woke right, like the right wing PC, what I call patriotic correctness, like the stupid stuff that they're putting in, like, oh, we have to honor all of the great things that America always did. I think it really opens them up to A, to losing that group, or at least to kind of losing control of the narrative in that world.

Totally. I mean, look, again, that is really the most interesting part of this episode for me. The PSA stuff is very funny, obviously, because it's a little tiny penis. It's funny. It's funny. There's one bedrock rule of comedy. If you put googly eyes on a penis people are gonna laugh But the but but the big but the big point of this episode is again The guys at South Park saying we are being there is somebody in power who is using the power of the presidency and the power

of the legal system to shut people up and That is that's we're not gonna we're not going to be shut up. We're not going to play that game. We're not going to bow and decide what can and cannot be said for us. And I do think that that's a real vibe shift. That is a thing that the president has long kind of played as kind of played as a Trump card. And I, he is losing it. He is losing it. And this is a, this is a pretty, this is exhibit a in what is, what is going on.

And like the Epstein's, like, wasn't really in this episode, right? And they turn around bombing, wasn't it? So the, uh, they're there. At at one point Donald Trump goes into bed with Satan and does the kind of Saddam Hussein thing. Yeah. And Satan is mad at him. Satan is mad at him because his name kept showing up in the Epstein files. Like I don't even want to talk to you. You are in Epstein files and and and President Trump in South Park's like, I don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. It's fine. It's fine. And it's it's again, it hits every it hits every note. It hits every note from the last I don't know month or so of the presidency.

Boy, I might just have to rewatch that clip again is really good. Everybody you guys go watch it. We're not we don't want to get we paramount as it has a lot of legal issues right now. So probably our YouTube feed is not at the top of it. But just to be safe, you guys go watch it on another platform. We'll just show you a couple of little pictures of Trump cuddling with Satan to give you a tease, because I enjoy that. You'll have to go see the googly eyed penis yourself. Hopefully on the internet somewhere, you don't need to give the Paramount people money, all right, if you don't want to.

I get that. I mean, they just paid 16 million to Donald Trump. It's worth supporting Trey Parker and Matt Stone for what they've done here. Yeah. Can we direct order? Is it like Southpark.com? Is it like a direct download? There is actually, there's a website, etrumpdust.com. If you go to etrumpdust.com, it'll take you to an embed of the PSA, which you then have

to actually click over to YouTube to watch because they won't even show it on that site because it's, again, it's a little bit risque. They want to make sure everybody's watching that on YouTube where they can verify ages and the such. Well, thank you to Matt and Trey. They brought back Casa Bonita and now they have torn Donald Trump down to size. We appreciate you very much. Sunny Bunch, go read Sunny's culture material at thebullock.com.

It's a podcast about the movies and such. You can check out as well if you're interested in that. And Sunny, I appreciate your time. Your penis is teeny tiny, but your love for all of our viewers is strong.