Why South Park Really Freaks Out Trump: Scaramucci

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The Daily Beast

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Anthony Scaramucci joins Joanna Coles and reveals why, really, Trump can’t stand ‘South Park’—and how that anger connects with his deep insecurity. Scaramucci unpacks a visibly faltering Trump: exhausted, erratic, and sliding in the polls, struggling to control the swirl of unanswered claims online. He and Joanna trace the ripple effects through Washington, from anxious MAGA insiders to allies quietly rehearsing their post-Trump moves. With the mythology under strain and the movement showing cracks, is this finally the week everything starts to unravel?

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0:00.0	I came across a great quote by Trey Parker, as you know, the co-creator of South Park.
0:04.4	Someone asked him why has South Park become political.
0:06.9	He said politics has become pop culture.
0:09.7	He's trying to give you an alibi.
0:11.7	He's going after Trump with South Park because he hates Trump.
0:14.8	And he's trying to expose through humor, the hypocrisy and the meanness and the viciousness.
0:21.6	Trump does not find it funny, trust me.
0:23.4	He hates it.
0:25.2	I'm Joanna Coles.
0:26.5	This is the Daily Beast podcast.
0:28.2	Who better to have on this week than Anthony Scaramucci to help us sift through the emails,
0:35.0	the files, and of course his most recent, very provocative Instagram post,
0:40.9	which is entitled The End of the Trump Presidency.
0:46.1	Anthony is, of course, the short-lived White House press spokesperson for Donald Trump.
0:52.5	He's also the founder of Skybridge Capital and he has his own
0:56.1	podcast with a brilliant British podcaster, Cathy Kay. The rest is politics. So, no time to waste.
1:04.4	Let's get into it. Anthony Scaramucci, thrilled to have you back. Let's get straight into it.
1:11.8	Good to be back, Joanna.
1:13.3	Well, I want to speak about a very provocative post you put on Instagram entitled
1:18.8	The End of the Trump Presidency.
1:21.6	What did you mean?
1:24.3	Well, he's a lame duck.
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