South Park celebrated its Emmy win with a public dig at Donald Trump.
Following the series’ win for Outstanding Animated Program at the 2026 Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday, the official South Park X account posted a jubilant message, congratulating creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and their team.
However, the message was accompanied by an image, showing a photo of the president’s face attached to a cartoon body with his pants down, holding an Emmy. He’s surrounded by South Park characters including Cartman, Kyle, Stan, Kenny, Mr. Garrison, PC Principal, Jesus Christ, and Satan.
“You finally got your Emmy,” the image proclaims.
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South Park‘s dig at the president is a one-two punch. Trump has been nominated for two Emmys — in 2005 and 2004 as executive producer of Outstanding Reality-Competition Program nominee The Apprentice — but has not won an award. South Park has now won six Emmys, with 21 nominations and Stone and Parker inducted into the 28th Television Academy Hall of Fame earlier this year.
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However, the bigger upset to the president could be that South Park won this year’s Emmy after a particularly anti-Trump Season 27, the premiere of which was the show’s biggest in years. And it was this controversial opening episode, “Sermon On The ‘Mount,” which won the show its 2026 Emmy.
The episode was slammed by the White House for its depiction of Trump, portrayed in bed with Satan and later stumbling through the desert naked and revealing a talking micropenis in a deepfake PSA sequence. The episode also makes references to the Trump’s urging for people to move on from the so-called “Epstein list”.
When Parker and Stone were asked about the episode at San Diego’s Comic-Con International in July, they responded, “We’re terribly sorry,” staring out to the audience.
And it wasn’t the only anti-Trump moment of Season 27 (or 28 for that matter), with multiple episodes dedicated to lampooning the president and his administration.
Trump or the White House has not responded to South Park‘s Emmy win or the X post as of this publication.
South Park Season 29, meanwhile, is set to premiere Sept. 16 at 10 p.m. ET on Comedy Central, before streaming on Paramount+.
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