South Park Episode Sparks Outrage, Reveals Alleged Trump-Vance Footage Amidst Epstein Document release
South Park, Colorado – November 12, 2025 - The latest episode of South Park ignited a firestorm of controversy today, featuring graphic depictions of a sexual encounter between former President Donald Trump and Senator J.D. Vance. The episode’s release coincided with the Congressional release of thousands of pages of documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, including emails indicating Trump’s knowledge of Epstein’s victims.
The South Park storyline unfolded with a deepfake of Eric Cartman being used in a nefarious scheme orchestrated by tech billionaire Peter Thiel. The narrative culminated in Thiel’s arrest and Cartman’s rescue, but took a shocking turn when police discovered illegal surveillance footage on Thiel’s laptop allegedly depicting a sexual tryst between Trump and Vance.
The episode’s creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, layered the scandal within a broader commentary on the dangers of artificial intelligence. The initial reaction from Fox News was reportedly one of panic, but Trump reportedly convinced the network – and even a skeptical Satan depicted in the show – that the footage was an AI fabrication.
This episode arrives at a particularly sensitive moment. The newly released Epstein documents include emails where epstein explicitly states that Trump ”knew about ‘the girls'” and engaged with one of the victims. While South Park’s famously rapid production schedule makes precise timing coincidental, the convergence of the fictional depiction and the real-world document release has amplified the episode’s impact.
The episode also serves as a potential self-reflection for Stone and Parker, who founded Deep voodoo LLC in 2020, a production studio specializing in deepfake technology. Their work to date includes a Kendrick Lamar music video and the web series Sassy Justice, featuring a Trump-resembling news reporter.
Notably, the season’s first episode featured a scene initially believed to be entirely AI-generated depicting a naked Trump in the desert. It was later revealed the scene primarily used real footage with deepfake technology applied only to the actor’s face.
The current season of South Park is structured as a meta “six-seven” gag, with episodes released in two distinct halves. This latest installment condemns the use of AI to undermine creative work – as exemplified by a Studio Ghibli representative’s outburst: “[We] make Totoro with pencil and paint,not by typing sentence on stupid Sora app” – and warns of it’s potential to manipulate perceptions of truth.
Whether Stone and Parker will act on these convictions and close Deep Voodoo remains unknown. With two episodes remaining, the season promises a dramatic conclusion, though the graphic Trump-Vance scene has already proven deeply unsettling for manny viewers.
