<em>South Park</em>'s Creators Have Given Up on Satirizing Donald Trump
For now, anyway.
“Jokes about Donald Trump aren’t funny anymore,” The Economist declared in 2015. The magazine took the example of the Roman poet Juvenal, noted practitioner of the art of Satura, who once noted that it was hard not to write satire, when one lived within the corruption and decadence of the “unjust City.” Trump, the magazine noted, “poses a curious inversion to this: He makes satire almost impossible.”
It’s a complaint that has been often articulated about Trump, as the larger-than-life mogul became a larger-than-life presidential noted, do you take —“Sorry losers and haters, but my IQ is one of the highest and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault”—and make it even more ridiculous?
