‘South Park’ Takes Aim At Trump As A Father

There are a lot of questionable things real-life President Donald Trump has done as a father. In the South Park realm, the fictional Trump is worse, having spent a multi-episode arc trying to trick Satan into aborting their love child. 

In Season 28, Episode 3, titled “Sora, Not Sorry,” Trump finally has uncovered chubby-faced JD Vance’s plot to end Satan’s pregnancy behind Trump’s back. But, after they realize they share the same objective, Trump is brought into Vance’s plotting with Peter Thiel. 

During a steamy hot tub conversation, Trump vents to Vance about his trials and tribulations. “I work really hard,” Trump laments. “I just feel like I deserve to relax a bit.”

“Of course you do boss,” Vance slyly encourages. “This baby is too much for you.”

“I tried abortion clinics, Plan B, but this baby just won’t die,” Trump complains. 

Even though it is a running theme for the show at this point, hearing Trump talk about wanting to kill off his progeny is pretty callous stuff. The mockery from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, however, comes from a deep vein of material from the President’s rather storied history as a father. 

Just starting with his daughter Ivanka Trump, there is a Washington Post article titled “‘The Apprentice,’ and four other times Donald Trump has commented on daughter Ivanka’s looks.” Some of those comments include Donald saying that Ivanka has “got the best body,” on The Howard Stern Show in 2013 and most famously, “I've said that if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I would be dating her.” That second statement was made on a 2006 joint appearance from Ivanka and Donald on The View. Trump’s office later issued a statement to clarify that he was joking.

With his other daughter, Tiffany Trump, Donald has made far fewer comments. That’s largely because Tiffany was raised by her mother Marla Maples with very little influence from the President, with Maples moving across the country to raise Tiffany outside of Donald’s “shadow,” according to Tiffany.  

With his sons, there’s been funnier examples of a father simply not very enamored with his own children. Once, when Eric Trump called his father at a political rally and told his father he loved him, Donald replied by saying, “Well, thank you.”

Even when his supporters, like political commentator Tucker Carlson, speak about Trump as a father in metaphors, it’s not a caring portrait they’re painting. At a speech leading up to the 2024 presidential election, Carlson said that “dad” (Trump) was coming home, and when he arrived (returned to the presidency) he’d have to teach his misbehaving children a lesson. 

“When Dad gets home, you know what he says?,” Carlson said at the Georgia event, imagining a scenario in which Trump gives the United States of America a dose of corporal punishment. ““You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now. And no, it’s not going to hurt me more than it hurts you. No, it’s not. I’m not going to lie. This is going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me. And you earned this. You’re getting a vigorous spanking because you’ve been a bad girl.'”

South Park is, of course, not overly concerned with keeping Trump’s plot lines on the show very realistic. While some moments draw from real headlines—like the destruction of the White House to build a new ballroom on the property—much of the material exists in the hyperbolic. After all, there’s no way Satan would sleep with Donald Trump.