The makers of South Park have postponed the new season because of Donald Trump

The creators of “South Park” have made a vow regarding Donald Trump, who was inadvertently responsible for the delay of new episodes.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone have repeatedly taken aim at Trump over the past decade, but had to take their foot off the gas in 2020 when they said it would be too difficult to satirize the Republican presidential candidate, who served from 2016 to 2020, because his administration was already too funny.

With the US elections approaching in November, Trump is once again on everyone’s lips. One might think that South Park would prepare some jokes about Trump.

That's not the case for Parker and Stone, however. They had to rewrite a 2016 episode when Trump won the election that year, and revealed that they intentionally delayed season 27 of the long-running adult animated series to avoid the election.

“We tried South Park through four or five presidential elections, and it is so hard to do,” Stone said Vanity Fairadding: “It's such a mess in the head, and it seems like it has an outsized meaning.”

While he acknowledged that the election was “damn important,” he said, “It kind of takes over everything and we just have less fun.”

Parker added that he did not know “what else we could say about Trump.”

Parker previously spoke on an Australian television show about jokes about the 2020 presidential election, in which Trump lost to Joe Biden 7.30: “Now it is tricky because the satire has become reality.

“It’s really hard to make fun of it, and in the last season of South Parkwhich ended just a month and a half ago, we really tried to make fun of what was going on, but we couldn't keep up and what actually happened was way funnier than anything we could have come up with,” he added.

“So we decided to hold back a little and let them do their comedy while we do ours.”

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This will be the first time South Park has not aired a new season since the show's launch in 1997.

Meanwhile, a Kickstarter campaign to support a Trump film that “the American economy is afraid to watch” is gaining popularity.

Earlier this week The Apprentice – a film starring Sebastian Stan as a younger version of the business tycoon – lost a major backer just a week after Briarcliff Entertainment took over its pre-election release date.

Kinematics chief Dan Snyder was reportedly furious about scenes showing Trump having affairs and taking drugs. The film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, also shows Trump being heavily influenced by disgraced lawyer Roy Cohn, played by Jeremy Strong.

Director Ali Abbasi set a goal of $100,000 (£75,928) on Kickstarter – but after just one day he had surpassed that target: at the time of writing he had raised $156,600 (£118,920) from 2,328 backers.