Ex-Republican National Committee spokesperson Tim Miller on Friday argued that recent episodes of “South Park,” which have brutally clowned Donald Trump, are influencing MAGA-friendly comedians and could have an impact on the president’s base.
Miller said that “South Park” has a “trickle down” effect on what he called “manosphere-type comedians,” including Tim Dillon and Andrew Schulz.
“The ‘South Park’ and the Tim Dillons starting to poke fun at these guys, I think could have a real political impact because it might pop the bubble of invincibility that Trump has had with some part of his base,” said Miller, a writer-at-large at the anti-Trump conservative site The Bulwark, in an interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.
Miller argued that those in the online “manosphere,” a community of right-leaning, male-focused comedians, influencers and podcasters, “want to be outsiders” and are “starting to get pretty skeptical” about the administration.
Since the Season 27 premiere of “South Park,” Dillon, who interviewed Vice President JD Vance just before last year’s election, has described the administration as “an auction” up for bids from other countries. He also declared that Trump deploying National Guard troops to D.C. “should scare everybody.”
Schulz, who featured Trump on his podcast in October 2024, has turned into Trump’s “loudest former-fan-turned-critic in this universe,” Vox’s Christian Paz reported Wednesday. The comedian recently told Democrats that they have an opportunity to remind voters that the president is a “liar.”
“Comedians don’t want to be talking heads and mouthpieces for the administration like a Charlie Kirk might. They want to be contrarian and Trump’s giving them a lot to work,” Miller said.
Earlier on MSNBC, Miller noted that it’s “frustrating” to see rich and powerful people failing to speak out against the administration.
“You would think that ‘South Park’ would be showing the way, that there’s not the risk here that all these people say there is — that you can speak out against Trump, especially if you come from a place of power and privilege,” Miller said.
He used the example of billionaire tech executives who went to the White House to “slobber over” Trump at dinner.
“As if the richest people in the history of the world could not survive and keep their dignity intact at the same time,” he said.