'A big fat man': Ex-GOP reacts to South Park's 'bully' Trump slam

Former GOP Rep. Joe Walsh said the creators of ‘South Park’ and Fed Chair Jerome Powell both showed America how to “punch a bully” this week.

While some critics blame ‘South Park’ for being a part of the culture that created a president like Trump, the first episode of the latest ‘South Park’ season put a target on the president’s back. Creators depicted a pointedly un-endowed Trump suing South Park residents for trying to remove the church from the town’s public school. As part of the settlement, Trump demands the town produce a public service announcement in support of the White House.

That PSA ends up depicting a realistic deepfake of the nude president staggering through a scorching desert.

Walsh, speaking on the Saturday edition of MSNBC’s ‘Velshi’,called Trump a bully and said the only way to respond to a bully is to punch back, South Park style.

“He lies every time he opens his mouth, and we've normalized his lying. We've normalized what a bully he is,” said Walsh. “ … That South Park episode making fun of Trump? Remember a lot of Trump's base are not Republicans. They're just men. They're guys who typically don't belong to a party. They don't vote all the time. They watch ‘South Park,’ and they just watched an episode this week where Trump looked really silly and stupid—a big fat man with a teeny tiny p————. I think that kind of thing really dings Trump.”

A day after the episode aired, the White House released a press statement calling ‘South Park’ “A fourth-rate show.”

Walsh also cheered the behavior of Powell, who insisted on correcting Trump’s false information before reporters this week regarding renovations costs.

“In real time, Jerome Powell showed every damn American how you deal with a bully. You don't back down. You don't turn the other way. You punch a bully in the face and you confront the bully. And when the bully lies, you call the bully out on his lie,” said Walsh. “Every member of the media should look at what Jerome Powell did, … because bullies are cowards.