Trump White House Rages Over 'South Park' Episode, Calls Show 'Fourth-Rate' [View all]

The president cowed Paramount execs, but the company’s talent is rebelling. Now, the administration is melting down

Satan (left) and Donald Trump (right) appear in 'South Park.'Comedy Central

Donald Trump’s White House is melting down over Wednesday night’s South Park premiere, which just so happened to attack the president’s “teeny tiny” manhood and depict him as literally in bed with the Devil, effectively taking over the role held on the show for years by the late genocidal dictator Saddam Hussein.

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The episode came just hours after it was reported that Paramount had agreed to buy the global streaming rights for South Park in a five-year deal worth $1.5 billion.

The twice-impeached, repeatedly indicted president has for decades harbored intense, mean-spirited pop-culture fixations, and that personality trait has not changed six months into his second administration. It would be easier to shrug off his celebrity obsessions as mere cattiness, if waging war on late-night television and its corporate owners weren’t an actual facet of his administration’s sprawling project of authoritarianism and fear.

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Paramount has faced mounting criticism over its efforts to cozy up to Trump. The executive producer of 60 Minutes quit in April, and said he was no longer allowed “to make independent decisions” running the show. The company’s decision to part ways with host Stephen Colbert and end his late night show has created an uproar, too.

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