South Park is now officially calling itself “South America” ahead of its new season.
The name change, announced by creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, lands as the animated Comedy Central series prepares to drop Season 29 on Wednesday, September 16. Parker, 55, and Stone, 54, framed the rebrand as a direct response to President Donald Trump’s recent renaming campaigns across the United States and beyond.
The duo released a statement through IGN that pulled no punches: “Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount — a Skydance Capitulation.”
The mockery follows Trump’s flurry of geographic rebranding efforts since returning to office. The president has pushed to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, targeted Lake Ontario for a “Lake America” switch, and threatened to rechristen New Mexico as “New America” in posts on Truth Social. Mexico itself has also faced similar renaming threats from the administration.
This is hardly the first time Parker and Stone have trained their sights on the current White House occupant. The show’s social media accounts recently posted a graphic of Trump’s animated character clutching an Emmy statue with his pants and underwear pulled down to his ankles, while Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, and Satan looked on. The caption read: “You finally got your Emmy.” The image appeared to reference Trump’s years of complaining about his failed Emmy nominations for NBC’s “The Apprentice,” which he hosted across 14 seasons.
The provocation arrives after South Park’s previous Trump-focused episode, “Sermon on the ‘Mount,” earned the show an Emmy last year for Outstanding Animated Program. Rather than downplay the honor, the series immediately weaponized it against the president online.
The White House fired back at that earlier episode through its social media accounts, specifically objecting to the show’s depiction of Trump with what it termed a “micropenis.” The administration’s post stated: “Just like the creators of South Park, the Left has no authentic or original content, which is why their popularity continues to hit record lows. This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention.”
Parker and Stone later appeared on Jimmy Kimmel’s show to discuss their approach to controversial material. During that interview, Parker revealed that their depiction of JD Vance as a Tattoo-like figure at Mar-a-Lago — a “Fantasy Island” reference — was originally conceived as a throwaway gag.
“It was just gonna be a one-off joke — this joke about Mar-a-Lago being kind of like Fantasy Island — and we were like, ‘Oh, we’re just gonna have him be Tattoo, and it’s gonna be one shot.’ And we all just loved it so much, and we loved him as a little character,” Parker explained on the program.
The six-episode season will roll out on a biweekly schedule, with subsequent installments dropping September 30, October 14, October 28, November 11, and November 25.
The outlet reached out to the White House for comment on the latest name-change stunt.
Season 29 premieres September 16 on Comedy Central.