August 08, 2025 04:16 PM UTC

Casa Bonita Owners Keep Sticking it to Trump Administration

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• by: Colorado Pols

The creators of South Park (and owners of the famous Casa Bonita restaurant in Lakewood) returned this week with their second episode of the season, which continued skewering the Trump administration.

The latest episode included an ICE raid at a “Dora the Explorer” concert at Ball Arena in Denver. The storyline centers largely on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whose character frequently pulls out a gun to shoot puppies; the episode made the real (humorless) Noem very sad:

Vice President JD Vance was also mocked, shown as a diminutive character alongside Trump in a relationship modeled after the old Fantasy Island television show starring Ricardo Montelban. “Esquire” has more on the latest episode:

Leave it to South Park to use a masturbation pun to say something insightful about keeping your soul intact. A few short weeks after South Park pulled its knives out against Donald Trump—seemingly inspired by parent company Paramount bending a knee to the presidency by canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to seal its billion-dollar Skydance merger—the infamously offensive, crudely drawn animated series extended its carnage to a rotten culture Trump 2.0 hath wrought.

Manosphere podcasters, Jubilee “debates,” ICE raids (again), rising costs of living, even a nod to our death by a thousand monthly subscriptions—all of it is wrapped up together in “Got a Nut,” the second episode of season 27 (sheesh). Oh, and Superman’s dog Krypto is shot down over a Mar-a-Lago that looks an awful lot like Fantasy Island. South Park is back in more ways than one, with its signature libertarian venom spewing to a specific side of the political aisle that arguably deserves it most—because if we don’t, we’re doomed.

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have found a hit new formula in attacking the Trump administration and pointing out the many, many, MANY absurdities attached to the entire cast of ridiculous real-life characters. While Trump has cowed many others in the media and entertainment industry, Parker and Stone are showing no fear — and benefitting bigly as a result.

We took note a few weeks ago of the season premiere of South Park that lampooned President Trump for his role in the Epstein files and his penchant for suing anybody who looks at him sideways. The White House hit back at South Park with a long, silly statement calling it a “fourth-rate show” that “hasn’t been relevant for 20 years” — a statement that did not age well.

As CNN noted in late July:

The 27th season premiere of the animated series attracted 5.9 million viewers across the Comedy Central cable channel and the Paramount+ streaming service last week, parent company Paramount said Wednesday.

That’s the “best season premiere rating since 2022,” Paramount noted — a notable data point given the general downward trajectory of basic cable channels like Comedy Central. The channel also said “South Park” enjoyed its biggest share of the cable audience for a season premiere episode since 1999.

As David Mack writes for “Slate” magazine, the new South Park might be just what this country needs to wake itself from the daily insanity of the second Trump administration:

There’s no delicate way of saying this, so I’ll just come right out with it: About halfway through the most recent episode of South Park, an impish J.D. Vance offers to help a micropenis-sporting Donald Trump have sex with the devil by asking, “Would you like me to apply the baby oil to Satan’s asshole, boss?” Given that the same episode also shows Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem violently murdering no fewer than a dozen puppies (something she’s actually done in real life to at least one!), I was rather shocked we didn’t get a shot of Vance lubricating things up for the president’s satanic sodomy session….

…In just two episodes, South Park has swiftly become the Saturday Night Live of the Trump 2.0 era: a cultural fixture that’s found new energy and relevance as TV’s sharpest satire of [gestures everywhere] all this. For whatever reason, SNL proved, during his first administration, to be a production that got under Trump’s skin. Maybe it was the show’s synonymousness with New York or 1970s nostalgia. Maybe it was just his hatred for Alec Baldwin, who was tasked with playing the president. But South Park has the potential to irk the forces and figures around Trump in a way SNL can’t. (Indeed, the premiere did make waves at the White House, per Rolling Stone.) Many of the nation’s currently most influential chuds grew up on this series, idolizing its naughtiness and defiance of “PC culture.” Now they’re the targets—and the show is not holding back. [Pols emphasis]

It has been said that the first step in solving any problem is to first acknowledge that you have a problem. Kudos to South Park for doing its part to shine a spotlight on our shared reality.