--- title: South Park Donald Trump Presidential Win Parody description: South Park riffs on Donald Trump's presidential win with the trailer to their latest episode. canonical: https://time.com/4565452/south-park-donald-trump-win/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-09T22:58:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:34.274Z og:title: Watch South Park Riff on Donald Trump's presidential win og:description: "We’ve learned that women can be anything, except for president." og:url: https://time.com/4565452/south-park-donald-trump-win/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch South Park Riff on Donald Trump's presidential win twitter:description: "We’ve learned that women can be anything, except for president." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # South Park Already Riffed on Donald Trump's Presidential Win > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 9, 2016 10:58 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Nov 9, 2016 10:58 PM UTC Less than 24 hours after [Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election](http://time.com/4563685/donald-trump-wins/), adult cartoon [_South Park_](http://time.com/4421205/south-park-trailer-twenty/) has already come up with their take on the whirlwind political event. The pithy television show has long established its voice when it comes to [satirizing contemporary politics ](http://time.com/4489554/south-park-colin-kaepernick-national-anthem-protest/)and this event was no exception. In a preview clip for Wednesday night’s episode, discussion about the cartoon equivalent of the historic election takes place around the Marsh family dinner table, where Randy, Sharon, and Shelly contentiously discussing the future of America, and fans will note that Randy is a Clinton fan (as aptly [demonstrated in the “turd sandwich” episode.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OutfP%5Fj8cUY)) The clip ends with a from Randy to daughter Shelly, after Shelly laments the future of the country. “We’ve learned that women can be anything,” he says. “Except for president.” Watch the full preview below. > [](https://twitter.com/SouthPark/status/796435917502226432) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4565452/south-park-donald-trump-win/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4565452/south-park-donald-trump-win/"},"headline":"South Park Already Riffed on Donald Trump's Presidential Win","datePublished":"2016-11-09T22:58:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:34.274Z","description":"\"We've learned that women can be anything, except for president.\"","url":"https://time.com/4565452/south-park-donald-trump-win/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","politics","Election","Election 2016","Donald Trump","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4565452/south-park-donald-trump-win/","name":"South Park Already Riffed on Donald Trump's Presidential Win"}}]}] ```