South Park hadn't won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program in 13 years. On Sunday night it finally did, and the celebration lasted about as long as it took the show's official X account to post a thank-you graphic.

The caption was tame enough. "Congratulations to Trey Parker, Matt Stone and the entire South Park team on their Emmy win," it read. The image was not tame at all. It showed a cartoon Trump, pants and underwear down at his ankles, gripping an Emmy statuette while Satan and the rest of the show's regulars looked on. The line under it: "You finally got your Emmy."

That's a specific jab. Trump was nominated twice for an Emmy, both times for NBC's The Apprentice in the Outstanding Reality-Competition Program category, in 2004 and 2005, according to Deadline. He lost both times, to CBS's The Amazing Race.

On stage, Trey Parker kept it simple, thanking fans for keeping the show alive. "It's only because of you guys that we haven't been canceled in 30 years," he said, per Deadline. Nobody needed him to say more. The graphic did the talking.

This was South Park's sixth win in the category out of 19 nominations across nearly three decades on air, and its first nomination here in five years. The show, created by Parker and Stone in 1997, picked up a record three Emmy nods this year on top of a Television Academy Honor.

Trump was, by most accounts, the season's recurring punching bag. TheWrap reports that the season premiere put him literally in bed with Satan, followed by a fake PSA using deepfake-style visuals of a nude Trump wandering through a desert, asking, "Who walked through the desert for you? Who survived the wilderness and gave the ultimate sacrifice?" JD Vance and Pete Hegseth weren't spared either. The season finale, per TheWrap, ended with Satan going into labor with Trump's unborn child, who dies before being born, an outcome the show depicted Trump celebrating.

The White House had already weighed in earlier in the run, calling South Park "irrelevant for 20 years" and accusing it of "relying on uninspired ideas for attention," a line Deadline flagged as the administration's clapback to the season's satire.

Online reaction split along predictable lines. Some fans framed the win as proof the show still has teeth after three decades. Others, per posts circulating after the ceremony, questioned whether the constant Trump material has become the joke rather than the joke about something. One post asked whether the show is proud of a Charlie Kirk-related episode from the run, a reference that's floating around without much detail attached to it.

South Park doesn't have time to bask either way. New episodes return September 16, and if the pattern from Seasons 27 and 28 holds, Trump probably won't get a quiet week off.