The animated comedy series South Park took aim at US President Donald Trump in its most recent episode, which aired on Wednesday, featuring a segment that pokes fun at his connections to cryptocurrency.
Entitled “Sickofancy,” the episode portrays caricatured versions of tech executives eager to win Trump’s favor by presenting him with gifts and showering him with compliments.
In two distinct scenes, what seems to be Microsoft CEO Sundar Pichai alongside venture capitalist-turned White House crypto and AI advisor David Sacks are shown queuing up to offer Bitcoin (BTC) to Trump.
Critics of Trump have voiced their concerns regarding the president’s pro-crypto policy stances, especially as he and his family have strengthened their ties to cryptocurrency through a trading platform, stablecoin, tokens, and a crypto mining venture.
South Park’s Latest Roast of Trump
The latest episode of South Park primarily lampoons the excessive reliance on AI, featuring a character who pivots his cannabis farm into an AI venture following an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid that arrests his workers.
This character ultimately receives guidance from an obsequious ChatGPT, suggesting he flatter Trump to persuade him to reclassify cannabis to save his enterprise. The show showcases officials and tech leaders, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, all lining up at the Oval Office to woo Trump and present him with gifts.
The episode also mocks Trump’s recent activation of the National Guard in the capital, displaying Washington, DC, swarming with troops at prominent landmarks, while perpetuating the joke of depicting Trump with a small penis and asleep with Satan, as well as portraying Vice President JD Vance as a chubby toddler.
The White House Responds to South Park’s Jokes
South Park’s 27th season premiered in late July, with its first two episodes sharply critiquing Trump and his administration, which drew the ire of the White House.
The season opener focused on Paramount’s $16 million settlement with Trump regarding a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris — Paramount recently spent $1.5 billion to acquire streaming rights to South Park.
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The premiere episode featured an AI-generated deepfake of Trump, depicted stripping naked in a desert, which led a White House spokesperson to label South Park a “fourth-rate show” that “hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is clinging to life with stale ideas in a desperate attempt for attention.”
Other Crypto Jests by South Park
South Park has been on air for nearly 28 years, often delivering humorous parodies of crypto.
A 2022 episode poked fun at Matt Damon’s recent endorsement of Crypto.com, while an earlier installment from 2021 satirized a character convincing others that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were a “viable investment.”
Another 2021 episode illustrated Bitcoin as the dominant payment method of the future, with a character exclaiming, “We’ve all decided centralized banking is rigged, so we trust more in fly-by-night Ponzi schemes.”
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