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Oh god......Hank is going to be a trump supporter officially in canon now, isn't he?
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck........
He's not wearing a red hat. Thankfully neither is Dale.
I want to know how they're going to handle Dale, since his voice actor died.
I'm afraid they'll try to use AI to recreate it.....
In the same way the original show intentionally avoided addressing 9/11, Iraq, or the Bush presidency I hope the revival has the sense to focus on the local lives of the characters instead of Trump.
The closest the original ever got to specific high level current political figures was the episode with then Governor Bush where Hank was rattled by his handshake rather than any comment on policy by the show.
They also did a thing where Jimmy Carter reunited Hank and his dad while building a house.
And Bill also dated a mayor. Although I'm unclear if that's a fictional mayor, or a real mayor in Texas. So that one may or may not count...
With carter having been out of the WH for decades at that point, I didn't consider him a "current" political figure. That episode is an example as well where the closest that episode gets to politics are some jabs at Carter as a peanut farmer, the episode doesn't use him to segue into some then-current political issue centered on a current politician.
My point, the forest through the trees, is that KOTH tended to shy away from up to the minute real world political specifics, and instead went for wider cultural issues and sort of culture politic issues without tying itself to specific real world politicians. Doing an episode revolving around a current hot button politician is more South Park's game, and even those guys are tired of talking about Trump.