The latest episode of “South Park” took aim at US President Donald Trump and his crypto ties, depicting him accepting Bitcoin gifts from tech leaders and state officials.
Aired Wednesday under the title “Sickofancy,” the episode parodied Microsoft CEO Sundar Pichai and White House crypto czar David Sacks as handing Bitcoin to Trump in a bid to win his favor. Other executives portrayed lining up at the Oval Office included Apple’s Tim Cook, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.
The plot also skewered Trump’s pro-crypto stance, showing him surrounded by sycophants bearing digital tokens while critics in the real world raise alarms over his family’s growing crypto businesses, which span a trading platform, stablecoin, token projects and mining operations.
The main storyline satirized America’s AI obsession, with a cannabis farmer turning to AI after an ICE raid wiped out his workforce. The character, following advice from a parody, tries to flatter Trump into reclassifying cannabis.
The episode continued the show’s running gags about Trump, portraying him with a small penis, in bed with Satan, and Vice President JD Vance as a toddler. It also depicted Washington, D.C., under heavy National Guard deployment, mocking Trump’s recent use of troops in the capital.
“South Park’s” 27th season premiered in late July, already drawing fire from the White House for its repeated Trump parodies. The debut episode featured an AI-generated deepfake of Trump stripping in the desert and touched on Paramount’s $16 million settlement with Trump over a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris. A White House spokesperson dismissed the show as “fourth-rate” and “desperate.”
The long-running comedy has ridiculed crypto before. A 2022 episode mocked Matt Damon’s Crypto.com ad, while in 2021 the show joked about NFTs as a “viable investment” and depicted Bitcoin as the future’s default currency with a nod to Ponzi schemes.
