The creators of South Park have revealed how they made a scene showing Donald Trump’s ‘micropenis’—and it wasn’t by using AI.
Last week, the show returned for its 27th season and premiered with a ruthless episode mocking the American president.
One scene showed Trump walking through the desert as he undressed, fell to his knees, and rolled over to lie on his back.
Highlights
- ‘South Park’ revealed that the Donald Trump ‘micropenis’ scene used a finger with googly eyes, not AI or deepfake technology alone.
- The desert scene was part of a fictional ad to settle a $3.5 million lawsuit against South Park’s townspeople.
- Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who recently agreed to a $1.5 billion deal with Paramount, bypassed network censorship by adding googly eyes to make the tiny penis a character.
- The episode satirized Trump’s lawsuits, the Epstein files, and referenced the $1.1 billion CPB funding cut.
The creators of ‘South Park’ have revealed how they made a scene featuring Donald Trump
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Trump then looked down at his micropenis, which featured googly eyes, as it said: “I’m Donald J. Trump and I endorse this message.”
It was part of a fictional advert made by South Park’s townspeople, who had agreed to produce an ad to settle a $3.5 million lawsuit against them.
The ad closed with the message: “His penis is teeny tiny, but his love for us is large.”
While the scene was believed to be a hyperrealistic deepfake when it aired, the show has now shared behind-the-scenes images revealing that the micropenis was, in fact, a finger.
Image credits: South Park
The entire scene was filmed using a Trump lookalike and is understood to have then been deepfaked so that the actor’s face became Trump’s.
Photographs show the actor lying on the ground as the show’s co-creator Trey Parker uses his index finger to make Trump’s micropenis.
At Comic-Con in San Diego last week, Parker and fellow South Park creator Matt Stone spoke about how they managed to get the scene approved by Comedy Central and parent company Paramount.
Parker and Stone were initially unhappy with the network for wanting to blur out the appendage, but they found a loophole and added googly eyes to make it a character.
Throughout the rest of the show, titled ‘Sermon on the Mount,’ Trump was portrayed as a loud figure who frequently threatened lawsuits and crawled into bed with Satan.
The townspeople are sued after protesting against Trump over concerns that he is a dictator and allegedly appeared in the Epstein files.
That protest was covered by 60 Minutes, which is a reference to Paramount settling a $16 million lawsuit with Trump over an edited interview it aired with Kamala Harris.
To settle the lawsuit against them, the townspeople agreed to produce an ad, which was the desert scene of Trump.
‘South Park’ recently agreed to a $1.5 billion streaming deal with Paramount
The episode also alluded to the Trump administration’s $1.1 billion funding cut to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the agency that funds NPR and PBS, as well as several public radio and TV stations.
After the episode aired, the White House responded in a statement to Variety.
“The Left’s hypocrisy truly has no end – for years they have come after South Park for what they labeled as ‘offense’ content, but suddenly they are praising the show,” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told the publication.
“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.”
Asked about the White House reaction at Comic-Con, Parker responded mockingly: “We’re terribly sorry.”
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The episode comes after Parker and Stone agreed to a $1.5 billion global streaming deal with Paramount+ following a bidding war, the LA Times reported.
Under the five-year deal, the Park County production company will produce 10 episodes a year, which will be aired on Comedy Central before streaming on Paramount+.
Following South Park’s debut episode, there was speculation online that Parker and Stone had been pressured into mocking Trump in part due to the streaming deal.