South Park becomes South America in response to Trump's name changes

Since Donald Trump's return to the White House, South Park has taken great pleasure in mocking the President of the United States. Inspired by the head of state and his tendency to appropriate places around the world by renaming them, the creators of the satirical series announced on Tuesday, September 8, that South Park would now be called South America.

In a message written on the official account of the series on “Inspired by the courage and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA,” they wrote, capitalizing in the text.

The animated series South Park, whose action has followed the lives of a group of schoolchildren in a small American town in Colorado for 29 seasons, now bears the name of an entire continent, South America.

Baptisms by contested decrees

At the end of August, Donald Trump announced his decision to rename Lake Ontario, which is on the border with Canada, a country with which the United States has started a trade standoff. The change in the name of the Gulf of Mexico dates back to the signing of a decree in January 2025, at the very beginning of his mandate. Decisions contested by the international community. On Wednesday, the American president suggested giving his name to the Strait of Hormuz ("Trump Strait"), before raising the idea, on Sunday, of renaming the American state of New Mexico into "New America".

Provocative, the creators of the series also attacked their broadcaster Paramount, now owned by Skydance, a conglomerate headed by a close friend of Donald Trump, David Ellison. “We would especially like to thank our parent company Paramount – a capitulation to Skydance,” the message continues.