Why are SNL and South Park struggling when it comes to President Trump?

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Two years later, the shock of Donald Trump hosting Saturday Night Live still hasn’t warn off, says John Hugar. No matter what Saturday Night Live does in attacking the president, his hosting the show casts “a nasty shadow over it," he says. “Put it this way: If every single cast member simultaneously stood on stage and said 'Donald Trump is absolute human garbage and we all condemn him to hell with every fiber of our beings,’ it still wouldn’t change the fact that two years earlier, he stood on the same stage and cracked jokes with them,” says Hugar. Meanwhile, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are taking “the coward’s way out” by focusing on Trump as little as possible. “Sure,” says Hugar, “it’s tiresome, but just ignoring him sends the wrong message, especially when there’s a line of thought that suggests South Park was somewhat responsible for the culture that led to someone as repulsive as Trump becoming president in the first place.” ALSO: On South Park, "the relative absence of Trump is disappointing for a show that loves to sh*t on power.”