The creators of the animated series South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, revealed that the new season will be called "South America", in an irony to the President of the United States, Donald Trump. The announcement was made through a statement and shared on the official account of the series on social media, including an image of the iconic South Park sign with the word "Park" replaced by "America". The animated series is now in its 29th season and had just come off a recent achievement, having won an Emmy for Best Animation Program on the weekend prior to the announcement.
The name change made by Stone and Parker is a direct reference to Trump's recent decisions to rename bodies of water. In August, Trump signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America". The previous year, the president declared that the Gulf of Mexico would be known as "Gulf of America". These actions by the Trump administration served as inspiration for the parody by the animation creators.
In the statement, the creators said they were "inspired by the courage and patriotism of Apple and Google," companies that also made changes to their names or visual identities in response to recent political decisions. The acknowledgment to the parent company, Paramount, was left partially incomplete in the article, suggesting a continuation that was not reproduced in the source.
