South Park Skewers Trump, Big Tech Enablers With Name Change to 'South America'
Common Dreams • • entertainment
Key Points:
- For its 29th season, "South Park" will be renamed "South America" as a satirical response to President Donald Trump's unauthorized renaming of geographic locations and the compliance of tech companies like Apple and Google.
- Creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker criticized Trump's renaming spree, which includes changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and proposing names like New America and the Trump Strait.
- Apple and Google have adopted Trump's preferred geographic names on their mapping platforms, prompting the show's creators to lampoon both the president and the tech giants' acquiescence.
- "South Park" has a history of satirizing Trump, including episodes that have drawn ire from the president and his officials, such as the Emmy-winning "Sermon on the Mount."
- The show also previously mocked Trump and its corporate parent Paramount, particularly after a $1.5 billion streaming deal, highlighting media and corporate fear of presidential retaliation.
