South Park won its fifth Emmy for Best Animated Show on Sunday — its first since 2013 — after a season that repeatedly mocked and belittled President Donald Trump.
The adult animated series saw a huge spike in viewership as it took aim at Trump and his administration, with its satirical portrayal of the president becoming a recurring target throughout season 27, which aired last year.
On Instagram, the official South Park account celebrated its win at the 2026 Creative Arts Emmys with a post yet again poking fun at Trump.
It featured Trump clutching an Emmy trophy — alongside the rest of the show’s characters — with his pants and underwear around his ankles.
“You finally got your Emmy,” read a message at the top of the image, while another along the bottom reminded fans: “New episodes September 16.”
Trump has complained about the TV awards in the past due to the fact that he never won an award for The Apprentice — the business competition series he hosted from 2004 to 2015.
“The Emmys were horrendous…the absolute worst show,” Trump wrote on X in 2012, adding in another post: “The Emmys are all politics, that’s why, despite nominations, The Apprentice never won — even though it should have many times over.”
In 2016, Hillary Clinton referenced the posts during a presidential debate, saying: “There was even a time when he didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row, and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him.”
To which Trump responded: “Should have gotten it.”
The Apprentice received eight Emmy nominations across its 15-season run.
In an interview with The New York Times last year, South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker described why they decided to feature Trump so heavily in the last season.
“It’s not that we got all political,” said Parker. “It’s that politics became pop culture.”
Stone added that speaking out against the Trump administration had become “taboo.” He continued: “Trey and I are attracted to that like flies to honey. Oh, that’s where the taboo is? Over there? OK, then we’re over there.”
Parker clarified that their targets can come from all sides of the political spectrum.
“We’re just very down-the-middle guys,” he said. “Any extremists of any kind we make fun of. We did it for years with the woke thing. That was hilarious to us. And this is hilarious to us.”
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