South Park rips into Trump’s crypto ties in latest episode

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Animated drama bid South Park mocked US President Donald Trump successful its latest occurrence aired connected Wednesday, with 1 portion satirizing his ties to crypto.

The occurrence titled “Sickofancy,” depicted scenes showing parodied versions of tech executives wanting to curry favour with Trump by lining up to springiness him gifts and thigh him with praise.

In 2 abstracted scenes, what appears to beryllium a depiction of Microsoft CEO Sundar Pichai and task capitalist-turned White House crypto and artificial quality czar David Sacks are lining up to acquisition Bitcoin (BTC) to Trump.

Trump’s critics person raised concerns implicit the president’s pro-crypto argumentation positions portion helium and his household person deepened ties to crypto with a trading platform, stablecoin, tokens and a crypto mining business.

South Park’s latest Trump roast

The latest South Park occurrence chiefly satirizes overreliance connected AI, with a quality pivoting his cannabis workplace into an AI startup aft an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid arrests his workers.

The quality yet gets proposal from a sycophantic ChatGPT to food up Trump and person him re-classify cannabis to prevention his business. The amusement depicts officials and tech executives, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, lining up astatine the Oval Office to flatter Trump and springiness him gifts.

The occurrence besides parodies Trump’s caller deployment of the National Guard successful the nation’s capital, depicting Washington, DC, arsenic overrun with subject astatine large landmarks and continues its gag of depicting Trump with a tiny penis and sleeping with Satan, on with portraying Vice President JD Vance arsenic a chubby-faced toddler.

White House has slammed South Park implicit Trump jokes

South Park’s 27th play debuted successful precocious July, and its archetypal 2 episodes heavy ripped connected Trump and his administration, which caught the ire of the White House.

The season’s debut focused connected Paramount’s $16 cardinal settlement with Trump implicit a 60 Minutes interrogation with Kamala Harris — Paramount precocious paid $1.5 cardinal for the streaming rights to South Park.

The debut occurrence included an AI-generated deepfake of Trump, who strips bare successful a desert, which prompted a White House spokesperson to telephone South Park a “fourth-rate show” that “hasn’t been applicable for implicit 20 years and is hanging connected by a thread with uninspired ideas successful a hopeless effort for attention.”

South Park’s different crypto quips

South Park has been connected aerial for astir 28 years and has fixed a comedic parody of crypto a fistful of times.

An occurrence successful 2022 ridiculed Matt Damon’s then-recent promotion for Crypto.com, and an earlier occurrence that aired successful 2021 joked that a quality had the powerfulness to person radical that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were a “viable investment.”

Another occurrence successful 2021 showed Bitcoin being utilized arsenic the mainstream means of outgo successful the future, with a quality saying, “We’ve each decided centralized banking is rigged, truthful we spot much successful fly-by-night Ponzi schemes.”