Is It Unfair to Canada That ‘South Park’ Made Trump Canadian?
In South Park Season 27, President Donald Trump is a gay, Iraqi-Canadian dictator in a rocky relationship with the devil himself, which could be construed as insulting by anyone who is gay, Iraqi, Canadian or Satan.
Last month, South Park came roaring back after a two-year offseason with a Season 27 premiere that instantly made international headlines and drew an angry response from the very White House itself. In “Sermon on the ‘Mount,” South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone set the show’s course for the next few months by bringing back an old antagonist and recasting the role of President Trump nine years after the start of the ill-fated President Garrison arc. Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, Prime Minister of Canada and abusive lover to Satan, has apparently undergone a dramatic makeover to take up the identity of Trump and run America in the exact same way that the actual President does it in real life.
The White House immediately reacted to the debut of the Trump/Hussein South Park storyline with outrage, calling the cartoon “fourth-rate” and claiming that South Park “hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years.” However, for as much attention as Trump’s tantrum over South Park received in the national media, less thought has been spared for the feelings of our neighbors to the north who are similarly displeased by this depiction of an American President who imposed massive tariffs on their country and even threatened to annex all of Canada.
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In a viral post from the South Park subreddit, one foreign fan wrote, “As a Canadian, I am insulted by the way Donald ‘The Diddler on the Roof’ Trump is portrayed…”
Predictably, the South Park fan community was ready with advice on how to manage the negative emotions that a Canadian national may feel when they see one of their country’s greatest antagonists flopping the two halves of his head up and down when he talks, just like they do. “Hey, relax guy!” the top commenter advised.
“But Saddam Husain was alright?” one fan questioned, then clarifying, “No I’m jk, I hate him too.”
Another Canuck chimed in, “Well as a Canadian I actually found the episode really funny and the reason I got back into South park. Relax guy!!!”
Presumably, the original poster isn’t actually offended that Trump is canonically semi-Canadian now, considering that any thin-skinned Canadians probably aren’t watching South Park after Parker and Stone spent the last 28 years roasting America’s northern neighbor and their peculiar wedding traditions. Still, I have some sympathy for the in-universe Canadians of South Park, considering that the last Trump straight up nuked them before the new one stole all their favorite phrases.
Perhaps South Park Season 27 will eventually give Canada their revenge on both Trump and his secret identity, seeing as both the President and Saddam Hussein have done plenty of irreparable damage to the country over the years. We all know that Canadians are capable of taking out a dictator when they put their farts together.
