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I doubt it, they set up a bunch of storylines. The episode is barely about Trump, most of it is how we're responding to this new reality
Parker and Stone have always been counter culture centrists... But from global warming to increasingly obvious political shifts, they just had nothing to say and seemed to realize maybe they're not as smart as they thought
They didn't talk about Trump 45 or MAGA much because they want to cynically sit back and make fun of wokeness and caricature bigots. They want Cartman to be a source of shock value, and they want Stan to be their honest take of an honest person trying their best to make sense of the world
But now people are identifying with Cartman openly. The episode was not subtle about that. Things have gotten out of control... Stan's arc was about Jesus being forced down his throat, he doesn't really have a problem with Jesus, he's just really weirded out.
The Trump bait was supposedly added late in production based on Paramount firing Colbert, they signed a $1.5 billion deal with paramount two days before airing and they want to blow up the merger. They didn't like how skydance leadership was already pressuring them, and they don't like the idea of censorship in general... That all was a fuck you, I dare you to cancel us now that real money is on the line
Trump will definitely be a backdrop, but they've finally found something they want to say. And there's just not much to say about Trump...What, are you going to call him a pedo? Are you going to say he smells? Are you going to say he's cheating at golf while his handlers do an ethnic cleansing?
There's just no room for satire with Trump, and I don't think they can bait a reaction much harder than they did this episode