'South Park' Mocks Donald Trump With Award He Never Won After Emmy Victory

South Park finally got back on the Emmy stage, and President Donald Trump was part of the victory lap.

The Comedy Central series won Outstanding Animated Program at the 78th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 6, taking home its fifth Emmy and its first in the category since 2013.

The show, created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, beat Rick and Morty, The Simpsons, Smiling Friends, Bob’s Burgers and Visions.

Then its official social media accounts celebrated with a graphic of Trump, pants down, holding the Emmy he never won, with the text, “You finally got your Emmy.”

Trump has long complained that The Apprentice never won an Emmy, despite his belief that it should have.

“I got screwed out of an Emmy!” Trump said in the final episode of Celebrity Apprentice. “Everybody thought I was going to win it! In fact, when they announced the winner, I stood up before the winner was announced.”

He also said The Amazing Race winning an Emmy in 2012 was “a total joke,” adding, “The Emmys have no credibility--no wonder the ratings are at record lows.” In 2014, he complained, “The Emmys are all politics, that’s why, despite nominations, The Apprentice never won--even though it should have many times over.”

South Park won for “Sermon on the Mount,” the debut episode of its 27th season. The season centered Trump in a brutal parody that included a caricature of the president in an abusive relationship with Satan and a scene involving Vice President JD Vance.

“Satire is a huge magnet for amplification since our media platforms are specifically designed to reward conflict,” said John Kwatakye-Atiko, Founder of Popularity PR.

“The algorithm does not differentiate between a viewer who felt entertained by the episode and a viewer who felt threatened by it,” he explained.

“An episode of satire which has been blessed by the Television Academy is no longer a joke to critics,” he said, “it is an organized corporate endorsement of a political narrative, weaponised for the masses."

“Political satire stays relevant because it can compress an entire argument about a public figure into one joke people instantly understand,” said media and cultural analyst Kaivan Shroff.

“That is also why it attracts so much backlash and amplification,” he added, though he warned that shouldn’t be mistaken for actual political organization.

“Comedy is trying to make you laugh, commentary is trying to make a point, and political organizing is trying to get you to do something,” he explained. “Mainstream entertainment can obviously do the first two without becoming the third, even if polarized audiences increasingly collapse those categories into each other.”