The latest episode of the animated show South Park, which aired on Wednesday, November 11, referenced Donald Trump after Republicans experienced significant losses in the US midterm elections last week. The episode, titled 'We Be Clubbin’', began with Mr. Garrison addressing a school assembly about the election results.
Mr. Garrison told students, "Now I know you all heard about the midterms and the severe beating our president took." He added that the show would not make jokes about him, stating, "it’s no fun punching down on a helpless loser." Following this, Mr. Garrison announced that "liberal changes" would be implemented across the school.
The US midterm elections took place on Tuesday, November 3, resulting in Democrats winning 54 US Senate seats and 254 US House seats. This outcome gave them comfortable majorities in both chambers of Congress. However, Donald Trump questioned the election's legitimacy on his Truth Social platform on Monday, November 9, writing, "Does anybody really believe that this ‘election’ was honest. How could the polls be so wrong?"
For its 29th season, the show's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, renamed South Park to South America. This change mocked Trump's reported orders to rename several major US landmarks to include 'America', such as referring to Lake Ontario as Lake America and a video suggesting New Mexico could become New America.