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Source: The Guardian
Were 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 presidents 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.
Were 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 Diegos 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 Trumps 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

SuzyandPuffpuff
(221 posts)This makes me so happy
Bernardo de La Paz
(57,295 posts)usonian
(19,374 posts)republianmushroom
(20,785 posts)They were just reinforcing what an experts opinion inferred.
calimary
(87,193 posts)Or not much to see here.
But it would tell you everything you might have wanted to know, and everything you probably suspected.
bdamomma
(68,901 posts)they sorry???? I wouldn't be.
Eugene
(65,982 posts)Thanks, now I saw it "joking" .
Warpy
(113,745 posts)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)Probably as much as any meltdown trigger yet. I'm surprised tsf hasn't demanded their cancelation. Tee Hee. It's glorious.
relayerbob
(7,236 posts)I realized that after another glance at the article.
IronLionZion
(49,513 posts)diabolical
orangecrush
(25,878 posts)
Greybnk48
(10,578 posts)This show is a comedy Masterpiece! Similar to Colbert at the White House Correspondent's Dinner years ago.
kimbutgar
(25,662 posts)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)We need more people making fun of him so he strokes out.
PortTack
(35,679 posts)Mblaze
(630 posts)Small hands, small man.
popsdenver
(84 posts)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)Well done movie.
great memory GG
GardenGnome
(107 posts)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)reading Orson Wells? book about time travel......It was a great story.....
GardenGnome
(107 posts)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)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)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:
haele
(14,432 posts)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?
11 Bravo
(24,161 posts)popsdenver
(84 posts)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.......
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)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)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)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)used to tell me that guys like Trump all have a.........TWPC...........Teenie Weenie Peenie Complex.........
BlueSpot
(1,135 posts)Often referred to as DJT.
IbogaProject
(4,724 posts)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)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.
Jose Garcia
(3,260 posts)odins folly
(434 posts)On Comedy Central, saw it yesterday afternoon .
Buns_of_Fire
(18,618 posts)Not that they're rubbing it in or anything like that.
UTUSN
(74,959 posts)Conjuay
(2,595 posts)Arnold Palmer, PEDOnald.
EnergizedLib
(2,660 posts)Trey Parker and Matt Stone have other ideas.
And thats one of the many things I love about South Park.
And people might say South Park isnt funny or no longer funny, they might right.
Because Wednesdays episode wasnt funny. It was straight-up truth, chillingly accurate.
some_of_us_are_sane
(1,652 posts)
