‘South Park’ to Take on ICE in New Episode

CBS and its owner Paramount may given in to the Trump administration’s demands, but South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone — who just inked a reported $1.5 billion deal with the studio — are not following suit.

The first episode of the wildly popular animated series 27th season savaged President Donald Trump by putting him in a deteriorating romantic relationship with Satan — who the creators previously paired with Saddam Hussein — and endowing the president with a miniscule manhood. And the show’s continuing to poke at the twice-impeached commander in chief, his policies and supporters.

A promo for the the second episode, which airs on Aug. 6, promised more of the same mockery when the teaser arrived July 29. The teaser once again depicts the president with reluctant lover Satan, but this time also involves ICE as well as a woman who appears to be Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Comedy Central revealed on Tuesday (Aug. 5) that the episode is titled “Got a Nut,” with the description explaining that Mr. Mackay — South Park Elementary’s counselor — has lost his job and is “desperately” trying to “find a new way to make a living.”  (That’s him pulling up his face mask while in what appears to be an ICE truck in the promo.) One of the images released from the episode Tuesday also shows a gun-toting woman resembling Noem in an ICE vest.

The cable and streaming network also reported that the first episode of season 27, “Sermon on the ‘Mount” — which ended with an internet-breaking PSA of Trump trudging across a desert — was the top telecast across all cable, racked up its biggest season premiere share on Comedy Central since 1999, up +68% vs. last season’s first episode, attracted nearly 6 million cross-platform viewers across Paramount+ and Comedy Central and trended on X for over 12 hours, five of them at No. 1.

The Trump White House slammed the South Park season 27 premiere the day after it aired. “The Left’s hypocrisy truly has no end – for years they have come after South Park for what they labeled as ‘offense’ [sic] content, but suddenly they are praising the show,” spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in a statement to Variety, claiming that the long-running animated comedy continues to “hit record lows” and that it “hasn’t been relevant in 20 years.”

Parker and Stone’s production company, Park County, is also slated to release, Like That, a live-action movie starring rap superstar Kendrick Lamar in March 2026.

South Park airs Wednesdays on Comedy Central at 10 p.m. ET, and streams on Paramount+ the next day.