When Stone and Parker made fun of past Presidents on the show, it was a different time, when Americans hadn't been barraged with political humour and editorials for 4 years straight. Everyone does it now, and it has become the easy-to-make, joke that writers make when there are no other ideas left. It's perfectly understandable, and quite tempting to make jokes about the President; but now that it's such a staple of TV comedy, South park SHOULD be straying from this conformity, and making jokes independent of the norms; and yet, they're not. In this episode, South Park has become merely another 2019 comedy show, and not the groundbreaking, inspiring, stunning, and brave work of art that it has been for so long; that is, until this season, or partially as far back as 2015. I understand that this show is over 2 decades old, and that only so many ideas haven't been done, or ruined by the Simpsons or Family Guy. Perhaps it's time for the show to honourably spare itself from that ugly fate. The call for cancellation is just. I love this show, as I did the Simpsons, more than any other; but I know what old age can do the brilliance of something, and I don't want to see it happen again. I hope Stone and Parker realise this, I hope to God. I truly do.
The thing is, you never know what goes on behind closed doors. It's possible that it was a sort of payment for making the China jokes, of which Comedy Central probably disapproved. In return for that, they had to make a joke that conforms to the wishes of the network. I still love the show, it's no big deal.