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In an interview with "7.30," "South Park" co-creator Trey Parker expressed what was challenging about making fun of Donald Trump: "It's tricky now because satire has become reality," he said. "We were really trying to make fun of what was going on but we couldn't keep up, and what was actually happening was much funnier than anything we could come up with." This would certainly be an issue since fans of satire come to expect certain conventions from the genre, which is meant to take reality as its basis but also expand upon reality to make it more humorous than it actually is. "So we decided to kind of back off and let them do their comedy and we'll do ours," Parker added.

"South Park" featured Trump/Mr. Garrison quite a bit during the real Trump's actual presidential campaign; however, things changed after he actually became president. In an interview with Collider, Parker and Matt Stone noted, "Now we were just full-on scared that he's President. Now we're just scared for our lives, so we wanted this idea of likenot only had we had it that everyone was starting to get more and more terrified of the president, but the president himself was feeling more and more stuck and put in a hole, so we figured maybe it's time to bring Garrison back and let him come back to town."

Apparently, the president's actual election marked a difference in how Parker and Stone viewed him: from comic inspiration into a type of comedy in itself that is also scary.

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The Real Reason South Park Laid Off The Donald Trump Jokes - Looper