South Park is continuing to needle Donald Trump and his administration as Season 27 continues. Comedy Central shared a teaser trailer for Episode 3, which is titled “Sickofancy.”
In the trailer, beloved character Towelie, the pot-smoking anthropomorphic towel, arrives in Washington, D.C. on a bus, where he encounters soldiers and military tanks. Towelie approaches the White House lawn as dark clouds loom overhead and tanks roll by, declaring, “This seems like the perfect place for a towel!”
Towelie, voiced by Vernohn Chatman, first made an appearance in Season 5, Episode 8, which established him as a genetically-engineered, drug-addicted talking towel. He has appeared in most seasons of South Park since.
South Park’s latest episode comes after Trump deployed the National Guard in D.C., saying that the city was “becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness” and he had to “to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse.” As recently as January, the Department of Justice was touting the fact that violent crime in Washington, D.C., “is the lowest it has been in over 30 years.”
Trump also suggested he may seek to deploy the National Guard to other cities as he did to Los Angeles in June, following protests against Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raids. He mentioned Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, and Oakland. “We have other cities also that are bad,” he said. “We’re not going to let it happen. We’re not going to lose our cities over this. And this will go further. We’re starting very strongly with D.C., and we’re going to clean it up real quick, very quickly.”
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So far this season, South Park has skewered Trump’s “teeny tiny” penis, portrayed him in bed with Satan, depicted Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem gunning down puppies, and shown Vice President J.D. Vance as Trump’s Dr. Evil Mini-Me-size sidekick.
The next episode of South Park airs Wednesday, Aug. 20 at 10 p.m. ET on Comedy Central and next day on Paramount+.
