Ex-Republican Nationwide Committee spokesperson Tim Miller on Friday argued that current episodes of “South Park,” which have brutally clowned Donald Trump, are influencing MAGA-friendly comedians and will have an effect on the president’s base.
Miller mentioned that “South Park” has a “trickle down” impact on what he known as “manosphere-type comedians,” including Tim Dillon and Andrew Schulz.
“The ‘South Park’ and the Tim Dillons beginning to poke enjoyable at these guys, I believe might have an actual political influence as a result of it’d pop the bubble of invincibility that Trump has had with some a part of his base,” mentioned Miller, a writer-at-large on the anti-Trump conservative web site The Bulwark, in an interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.
Miller argued that these within the on-line “manosphere,” a group of right-leaning, male-focused comedians, influencers and podcasters, “need to be outsiders” and are “beginning to get fairly skeptical” in regards to the administration.
For the reason that Season 27 premiere of “South Park,” Dillon, who interviewed Vice President JD Vance simply earlier than final 12 months’s election, has described the administration as “an auction” up for bids from different nations. He additionally declared that Trump deploying Nationwide Guard troops to D.C. “should scare everybody.”
Schulz, who featured Trump on his podcast in October 2024, has was Trump’s “loudest former-fan-turned-critic on this universe,” Vox’s Christian Paz reported Wednesday. The comic just lately instructed Democrats that they’ve a chance to remind voters that the president is a “liar.”
“Comedians don’t need to be speaking heads and mouthpieces for the administration like a Charlie Kirk might. They need to be contrarian and Trump’s giving them so much to work,” Miller mentioned.
Earlier on MSNBC, Miller famous that it’s “irritating” to see wealthy and highly effective folks failing to talk out towards the administration.
“You’d suppose that ‘South Park’ could be exhibiting the way in which, that there’s not the danger right here that each one these folks say there’s — which you could communicate out towards Trump, particularly in the event you come from a spot of energy and privilege,” Miller mentioned.
He used the instance of billionaire tech executives who went to the White Home to “slobber over” Trump at dinner.
“As if the richest folks within the historical past of the world couldn’t survive and preserve their dignity intact on the identical time,” he mentioned.
