Only Trey Parker and Matt Stone could sign a $1.5 billion deal with Paramount and then immediately torch the network, and possibly the entire arrangement, less than 24 hours later. Last night’s season 27 premiere of “South Park,” titled “Sermon on the Mount,” has gone completely viral.
Instead of playing it safe after their record-breaking extension, the duo delivered one of the most unrelentingly bizarre, furious, and unhinged episodes of their career. The episode targets Donald Trump with total insanity: grotesque imagery, naked Satanic orgies, full-frontal CGI nudity, and a nihilistic deepfake that plays more like experimental cinema than anything resembling comedy.
The photoreal Trump appears in a fever dream where he’s shown in bed with Satan, surrounded by apocalyptic visuals and an endless stream of commentary about the size of his penis. At one point, a talking version of the organ monologues about his love for America.
This moment, where the episode abruptly shifts from animation to + live-action deepfake footage, is what’s gotten people talking. A source with knowledge has confirmed to me that this closing scene was an idea from Parker and Stone’s abandoned 2022 project, “Deep Fake: The Movie,” a secretive film experiment that never saw the light of day. That project, built around AI-generated political impersonations, was reportedly shelved at the start of the pandemic.
In the episode, deepfake Trump wanders a barren desert, strips naked, and delivers a glitchy, garbled endorsement of himself. His skin glows, his eyes glitch, and his voice cuts in and out. It’s shocking—a South Park blend of satire and tech-driven horror.
The whole episode is ugly, frantic, hallucinatory, and uncomfortably funny. It’s also one of the most politically charged things South Park has ever done, and that includes their infamous post–9/11 episodes and the Scientology takedown. It’s also surprising given that Stone and Parker said in a September 2024 interview that they would not satirize Trump on the show, but during this season premiere, did exactly that.
What intrigues me most is that Parker and Stone have unveiled footage from an old, long-abandoned project, which makes me incredibly curious to see more. It was originally intended to be their first film since 2004’s “Team America: World Police.” Could they actually be gearing up to resurrect it?
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