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Eugene

(65,982 posts)
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 10:12 AM Friday

'We're terribly sorry': South Park creators respond with humour to White House anger over naked Donald Trump

Source: The Guardian

‘We’re terribly sorry’: South Park creators respond with humour to White House anger over naked Donald Trump

Speaking at Comic-Con on Thursday, Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed they spent days negotiating with producers to show the US president’s genitals

Sian Cain and agencies
Fri 25 Jul 2025 07.41 BST
Last modified on Fri 25 Jul 2025 12.58 BST

South Park co-creator Trey Parker had the briefest of responses on Thursday to anger from the White House over the latest season premiere, which showed a naked Donald Trump in bed with Satan.

“We’re terribly sorry,” Parker said, followed by a long, deadpan-comic stare.

Parker was asked for his reaction to the fracas on the stage at San Diego’s Comic-Con International at the beginning of a animation panel that also included his South Park partner Matt Stone, Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge and actor Andy Samberg, who co-created the animated Digman!

Earlier in the day, the White House issued a statement on the 27th season premiere episode, which aired Wednesday night. Unlike other characters in the animated show, Trump is depicted as an actual photo of the US president on an animated body. There is also an extended scene featuring a hyper-realistic, deepfake video of Trump, completely naked, walking in a desert; and repeated suggestions that Trump’s genitalia are small.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/25/were-terribly-sorry-south-park-creators-respond-with-humour-to-white-house-anger-over-naked-donald-trump

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'We're terribly sorry': South Park creators respond with humour to White House anger over naked Donald Trump (Original Post) Eugene Friday OP
Smile SuzyandPuffpuff Friday #1
Only a tRump WH would even respond to parody and satire. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Friday #2
Nothing to see here. Move on. usonian Friday #3
Believe that is what Stormy insinuated. republianmushroom Friday #15
Or maybe "very little to see here." calimary Friday #21
😆 Deuxcents Friday #4
Why are bdamomma Friday #5
Trey Parker is joking. The Associated Press uses a clearer headline. Eugene Friday #6
Oops bdamomma Friday #11
I'm sure they said it with big grins on their faces Warpy Friday #7
Magat heads are exploding all over the country. rubbersole Friday #13
It isn't an apology relayerbob Friday #8
Yes bdamomma Friday #44
It keeps it in the public's awareness and news headlines IronLionZion Friday #18
So sorry orangecrush Friday #9
I'm 76, and it made me blush, scream, and laugh so hard we had to rewind is several times!!! Greybnk48 Friday #10
I recorded it to my DVR and then moved it to an external drive kimbutgar Friday #12
Which is absolutely what he is! tonekat Friday #14
Gotta luv these guys! PortTack Friday #16
You know what they say.. Mblaze Friday #17
I can only think popsdenver Friday #19
The People Versus Larry Flynt GardenGnome Friday #20
Bingo popsdenver Friday #24
Synchronicity GardenGnome Friday #29
I remember as a young kid popsdenver Friday #30
I don't know that one GardenGnome Friday #35
That's the one popsdenver Friday #37
No, that's not the same one GardenGnome Friday #40
Well, the Eloi v Morloc part of the story seems to be a group of wealthy idiots view of the world. haele Friday #39
I thought Woody Harrelson deserved an Oscar for his performance in that film. 11 Bravo Friday #27
Definitely popsdenver Friday #31
Odd GardenGnome Friday #36
The felon's legions can't legally get Stone & Parker for one damn thing. First Amendment. ancianita Friday #22
Great synopsis Anc popsdenver Friday #28
Thanks for the history. ancianita Friday #32
My ex wife popsdenver Friday #34
Yeah, he suffers from Diminutive Johnson Trauma BlueSpot Friday #46
Catch is with liable is that it has to be known to be untrue when disseminated IbogaProject Friday #45
You may be misremembering things Jose Garcia Friday #41
The craziest thing about Flint vs Falwell is that they eventually became friends Jose Garcia Friday #38
Reruns are already odins folly Friday #23
...and tonight (Friday) at 11 PM EST, oddly enough. Buns_of_Fire Friday #43
I detect an emperor-no-clothes reference. UTUSN Friday #25
Hey, not everybody can be Conjuay Friday #26
When it seems like nearly everybody has caved EnergizedLib Friday #33
I just watched it! THE BEST EVER!!! some_of_us_are_sane Friday #42

republianmushroom

(20,785 posts)
15. Believe that is what Stormy insinuated.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 12:07 PM
Friday

They were just reinforcing what an experts opinion inferred.

calimary

(87,193 posts)
21. Or maybe "very little to see here."
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 01:12 PM
Friday

Or “not much to see here.”

But it would tell you everything you might have wanted to know, and everything you probably suspected.

Warpy

(113,745 posts)
7. I'm sure they said it with big grins on their faces
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 11:35 AM
Friday

and fingers crossed behind their backs.

C'mon, these are the guys who went to the Emmys one year in drag. They're only sorry that MAGAt heads didn't explode all over the country.

rubbersole

(10,170 posts)
13. Magat heads are exploding all over the country.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 11:52 AM
Friday

Probably as much as any meltdown trigger yet. I'm surprised tsf hasn't demanded their cancelation. Tee Hee. It's glorious.

Greybnk48

(10,578 posts)
10. I'm 76, and it made me blush, scream, and laugh so hard we had to rewind is several times!!!
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 11:48 AM
Friday

This show is a comedy Masterpiece! Similar to Colbert at the White House Correspondent's Dinner years ago.

kimbutgar

(25,662 posts)
12. I recorded it to my DVR and then moved it to an external drive
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 11:51 AM
Friday

Because it might disappear soon!

I can see an executive order outlawing it ! It was hilarious, embarrassing and makes the orange predophile president (OPP) look like a pedo evil freak.

tonekat

(2,293 posts)
14. Which is absolutely what he is!
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 11:57 AM
Friday

We need more people making fun of him so he strokes out.

popsdenver

(84 posts)
19. I can only think
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 12:43 PM
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that they just added themselves to the top of trump's Hit list.....All out investigations by DOJ, FBI, Border Patrol, IRS audits, etc etc etc.

What was the movie about Hustler Magazine's Owner, and the Supreme Court ruling it was allowed under the first amendment.....
Surely there will be a repeat of that by Trump, FBI, DOJ and with his USSC court the outcome maybe much different........

GardenGnome

(107 posts)
29. Synchronicity
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 01:58 PM
Friday

I probably haven't thought about this movie since I watched it after it went to video. Then for some reason yesterday, it came to mind.

popsdenver

(84 posts)
30. I remember as a young kid
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 02:04 PM
Friday

reading Orson Wells? book about time travel......It was a great story.....

GardenGnome

(107 posts)
35. I don't know that one
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 02:38 PM
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So I looked it up. Is it possible you mean The Time Machine by H. G. Wells? I never read the book but it was a great movie with Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux (1960). I've watched that one over the years as it showed up one place or another. They did a remake in 2002 that I also watched. I should read the book too since I enjoyed the story so much.

popsdenver

(84 posts)
37. That's the one
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 02:49 PM
Friday

I possibly read it pre 1960, before the movie???????

It was like a twilight zone or catch 22 type of thing. The guy goes back in time, and is warned not to step off the time machine's "path".
He gets back to current time, and the President? that has been elected is the biggest criminal ever. He examines his shoes from the trip back in time, and realizes that he must have stepped off the designated path, and embedded in some mud was a tiny insect.
Showing how something as innocuous as the death of an insect could massively change the outcome in the future.....
That's the best I can remember, from 70 years ago.......

GardenGnome

(107 posts)
40. No, that's not the same one
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 03:00 PM
Friday

Another great short story though. I think it was required reading in one of my junior high reading classes, but I loved Ray Bradbury and read a lot of his books, so possibly not. The story was A Sound of Thunder from1952. And, in yet another example of synchronicity, I recently watched a movie on Tubi that used that title and some of the story's elements. Also called A Sound of Thunder.

From Wikipedia:

The idea that the death of one butterfly could eventually have a far-reaching ripple effect on subsequent historical events made its earliest known appearance in "A Sound of Thunder", a 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury in which a time traveller alters the future by inadvertently treading on a butterfly in the past.

haele

(14,432 posts)
39. Well, the Eloi v Morloc part of the story seems to be a group of wealthy idiots view of the world.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 02:50 PM
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Wealthy Tech Bros and privileged billionaires somehow think they're the Eloi and the rest of us are just Morlocs, keeping their fairy tale cities and services going. In exchange for what, I might ask?

popsdenver

(84 posts)
31. Definitely
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 02:06 PM
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It was a stellar performance, his absolute best ever.......

But the Academy Awards people wouldn't do it, due to the subject matter, for any amount of money.......

GardenGnome

(107 posts)
36. Odd
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 02:42 PM
Friday

I thought I had posted a reply to this but I guess I failed to hit post. I agree. Great performance, but as popsdenver said, the subject matter probably didn't help. And I looked up who did win, Geoffrey Rush for Shine. I didn't see the film, but from the description if the role was done well, it would have been a tour de force performance.

ancianita

(41,183 posts)
22. The felon's legions can't legally get Stone & Parker for one damn thing. First Amendment.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 01:13 PM
Friday

The SCOTUS hasn't overruled first amendment precedents, especially its own preceding unanimous ruling in Hustler v Falwell.

When Flynt published a satirical parody ad in which Jerry Falwell tells of a drunken sexual encounter with his mother, Falwell sues Flynt for libel and emotional distress. Flynt countersues for copyright infringement, because Falwell copied his ad and used it to raise funds for his legal bills.
This case centered on a parody advertisement published in Hustler.
The Court ruled unanimously that public figures cannot recover damages for emotional distress from publications that contain false statements of fact unless those statements are made with "actual malice" (knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard for the truth). The decision affirmed the importance of satire and parody as forms of free expression protected by the First Amendment,

And because
a) Matt Stone, creator of the felon's parody scenes, said live in person in front of millions of witnesses: "I'm terribly sorry" without a hint of laughter or smirk, "malice" won''t be provable against THEM in the creative process; and
b) Parker & Stone and producers went over the animated naked scenes for weeks before the episode aired, so no malice provable against their company, either.
If the felon sues, he won't even get certiorari from this SCOTUS.

popsdenver

(84 posts)
28. Great synopsis Anc
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 01:56 PM
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Remember when Bill Clinton was being hounded by the Religious Right U.S. Senators for he and Monica??????????

Someone told me that Larry Flynt supposedly hired expensive Private eyes, and advertised in Hustler that he would pay for any woman who had committed adultery with a U.S. Senator to come to him.......If the story was un-questionably Verifiable, with evidence, that he would pay each of them a million dollars. And, then he announced to the U.S. Senators, that the first Senator was going to be exposed in the next months Hustler, and one a month for the next thirteen months that he already had proof of........ AND that it appeared that the first thirteen was just the start.
He told the Senators, if they dropped the whole Clinton BJ thing, he would bury the articles on them, but if they didn't, he would release them, one every month.....

Interesting that they dropped? the investigation almost immediately

Maybe it was just a rumor, but knowing Flynt it could certainly be true............

ancianita

(41,183 posts)
32. Thanks for the history.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 02:07 PM
Friday

The main thing is that it took a dead man's files and a cartoon episode to crack the felon's dictatorial theater, because they hurt him most in highly personal areas he's been most proud of.

Doesn't mean the damage his people have done will go away soon, but damage to him will at least be a start.

popsdenver

(84 posts)
34. My ex wife
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 02:09 PM
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used to tell me that guys like Trump all have a.........TWPC...........Teenie Weenie Peenie Complex.........

IbogaProject

(4,724 posts)
45. Catch is with liable is that it has to be known to be untrue when disseminated
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 05:39 PM
Friday

We have no way to know it is untrue and have reasonable suspicion to believe otherwise. And this was clearly parody and then it is almost anything is allowed as long as it can't be confused with reality. T47 would have a hard time litigating any of this. Now Government harassment of those two creators, that is another issue but I expect them to hold their own.

Jose Garcia

(3,260 posts)
41. You may be misremembering things
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 03:02 PM
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The Lewinski affair was not dropped. The House of Representatives voted of four Articles of Impeachment. Two passed and were sent to the Senate. I trial was held. Ten Republicans voted to acquit Clinton on the first charge. Only five voted to acquit on the second charge.

Buns_of_Fire

(18,618 posts)
43. ...and tonight (Friday) at 11 PM EST, oddly enough.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 03:09 PM
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Not that they're rubbing it in or anything like that.

EnergizedLib

(2,660 posts)
33. When it seems like nearly everybody has caved
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 02:08 PM
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone have other ideas.

And that’s one of the many things I love about South Park.

And people might say South Park isn’t funny or no longer funny, they might right.

Because Wednesday’s episode wasn’t funny. It was straight-up truth, chillingly accurate.

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