South Park announces name change following Trump's call to change Lake Ontario

After 28 seasons of talking feces, depicting the Prophet Muhammad, and the voice of Chef supposedly walking out over an episode about Scientology, you might think there's not much left for South Park to offend with.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone's animated sitcom has been banned in China since 2019, with the aptly named "Band in China", but on home soil, South Park isn't averse to the odd controversy.

Having previously taken aim at Donald Trump in its controversial season 27 opening, South Park is back to rattle the President of the United States once again.

After season 27's "Sermon on the 'Mount" led to sources claiming that Trump was "seething over the childish attack by South Park," it'll be interesting to see his response to the latest parody.

While admittedly not as bad as depicting the POTUS in a sexual relationship with the Devil and being mocked over having a 'micropenis', we don't imagine the Commander-in-Chief will be too impressed by the long-running series trolling his recent renaming of Lake Ontario.

Like Trump made waves for renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, he's faced massive backlash for trying to rebrand Canada's Lake Ontario as Lake America.

Trump doesn't seem to be stopping his renaming campaign, apparently setting his sights on changing New Mexico to New America.

In response to this, South Park has had a name change of its own and jokes about being called South America ahead of the September 16 premiere.

A statement from Stone and Parker explains the change and joked: "Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount – a Skydance Capitulation."

This in itself seems like a jibe at Paramount Skydance, which is a corporation owned by infamous Trump ally, David Ellison.

We're still in the midst of a complicated merger where Paramount Skydance is aiming to take over Warner Bros. Discovery for a cool $111 billion and become one of the biggest media conglomerates in the world.

Trump previously came under fire for his administration approving the divisive deal, although it's still yet to be formally signed.

"Sermon on the 'Mount'" was its own middle finger to Trump's potential ties to Paramount, ironically coming less than a day after Parker and Stone signed a lucrative $1.5 billion deal that would see the pair's contracts extended for five years and Paramount secure South Park's global streaming rights.

The timing of the South Park mockery seems apt, coming just one day after Trump shared an AI-generated video that showed him placing 'America' over 'Mexico' on a “Welcome to New Mexico" sign.

This isn't the only jibe thrown Trump's way from South Park, with the show's official Instagram account celebrating the end of a 13-year drought as it won the 2026 Creative Arts Emmy for Best Animated Show.

Depicting Trump with his trousers around his ankles, the post jeered: "You finally got your Emmy."

The White House hasn't responded to either of these posts, but we expect the POTUS to be pretty vexed right now.