The creators of South Park didn’t set out to spend a whole season roasting Donald Trump and his administration.

But, as Trey Parker told The New York Times in a joint interview with co-creator Matt Stone, “It’s like the government is just in your face everywhere you look.” And though they considered turning a blind eye to MAGA after the season opener, “there’s no getting away from this,” he said.

“Whether it’s the actual government or whether it is all the podcasters and the TikToks and the YouTubes and all of that, and it’s just all political and political because it’s more than political. It’s pop culture.” Parker added, “It’s not that we got all political. It’s that politics became pop culture.”

Pop culture and our societal “taboos” is where the show has always lived, Stone explaine

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