Ex-Republican National Committee spokesperson Tim Miller on Friday argued that recent episodes of “South Park” — which have brutally clowned Donald Trump — are influencing MAGA-friendly comedians and pointed to a “trickle down” effect on those in the so-called “manosphere.”
“The ‘South Park’ and the ‘Tim Dillons’ starting to poke fun at these guys, I think could have a real political impact because it might pop the bubble of invincibility that Trump has had with some part of his base,” said Miller, a writer-at-large at the anti-Trump conservative site The Bulwark, in an interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.
Miller argued that the likes of Tim Dillon and Andrew Schulz — who are part of the online “manosphere” community of hyper-masculine, anti-establishment comedians and podcasters — are “starting to get pretty skeptical” about the administration and “want to be outsiders.”
Since the Season 27 premiere of “South Park,” Dillon — who interviewed Vice President JD Vance just before last year’s election — has described the administration as “an auction” up for bids from other countries and declared that Trump deploying National Guard troops to D.C. “should scare everybody.”
Schulz — who featured Trump on his podcast in October 2024 — has turned into Trump’s “loudest former-fan-turned-critic in this universe,” Vox’s Christian Paz reported Wednesday, and recently told Democrats that they have an opportunity to remind voters that the president is a “liar.”
