Fox News Blasts ‘South Park’s Trump Parody While Claiming That MAGA ‘Knows How to Laugh at Itself’

A number of Trump supporters aren’t happy with the current season of South Park, seeing as how it has focused less on the day-to-day goings-on of the titular Colorado town, and more on the dictatorial whims of America’s president and his tiny wiener. 

At the same time, now that the right has finally made comedy “legal,” MAGA loyalists like Charlie Kirk and vice president J.D. Vance have seemingly had to act as though they’re totally cool with South Park, and even honored to be featured on the show that clearly hates their guts with a passion.

How can the right reconcile their past admiration for South Park with their current distaste for the Trump-focused material? Well, as one Fox News contributor just argued, maybe the show’s just not funny anymore.

A recent Fox News Digital op-ed praised Kirk for laughing off the show’s “tribute” adding, “say what you will, MAGA knows how to laugh at itself.” 

Yup, nothing says “we know how to laugh at ourselves” quite like asking the Department of Justice to punish late-night comedians for making mean jokes.

But the right clearly isn’t prepared to laugh at South Park’s depiction of the president and his cronies. “In every episode, all roads lead back to Trump, and the character created for him, including a photo animation of his head. And the shows have been replete with references to, and even depictions of, the president's genitals,” the op-ed reads. “Unfortunately, the least funny and entertaining moments this season are the ones that feature Trump and his administration. It’s just the same joke over and over: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shoots enough dogs to fill a pet cemetery and Vice President J.D. Vance is Tattoo from Fantasy Island. OK.”

Of course, one could argue that a running gag about the Homeland Security Secretary’s penchant for dog murder and a reference to a decades-old old Ricardo Montalban show are in no way the same joke. 

The writer also called South Park “political propaganda,” questioned why the show never parodied ”Grandpa Joe Biden” and compared the new season to Gavin Newsom’s sweaty social media meme factory. But they did enjoy the most recent episode’s ChatGPT jokes and also praised the show’s history of transphobia, arguing that the cartoon once “challenged convention.”

So for those of you keeping track, apparently making fun of the trans community is hilarious and boundry-pushing, but poking fun at the government isn’t. Yeah, when will South Park get back to taking on the establishment and stop making fun of the President of the United States?

“People on the right can take a joke,” the piece concludes. “It would just help if the jokes about MAGA could actually be funny.”

Of course, there are at least a few million people who might disagree with that assessment.