The Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, has responded to her recent depiction inSouth Park. Show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone took aim at Noem and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in the second episode ofSouth Parkseason 27.
The episode depicted Noem repeatedly shooting dogs and overusing Botox as her face melts before raiding a production ofDora the Explorer Live!and Heaven to arrest anyone who appears Hispanic, “If they’re brown, take them down.” The episode also skewers Vice President J.D. Vance and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
In an interview with Glenn Beck (viaThe Daily Beast), Noem reacts to being portrayed in the animated series. She states that she did not see the episodes because she was “going over budget numbers and stuff,” but calls the show out for being “lazy” for making fun of women’s looks. She does not address her animated counterpart shooting dogs or ICE arrests.
I didn’t get to see it. I was going over budget numbers and stuff. Yeah, it never ends. But it’s so lazy to just constantly make fun of women for how they look. Only the liberals and the extremists do that. If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that, but clearly they can’t. They just pick something petty like that.
South Park Continues Its Relentless Assault On The Trump Administration
Season 27, episode 2, “Get A Nut,” is based around Eric Cartman’s anger at the right wing’s co-opting his schtick of using racism and other hateful stereotypes, while Mr. Mackey joins ICE after being fired from South Park Elementary due to budget cuts. Other elements of the episode include the show’s depiction of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, whom Cartman models his hairstyle after.
President Trump is first seen at Mar-a-Lago welcoming Mr. Mackey and offers him a new position as Head of Homeland Security. The episode also makes a direct nod to Trump’s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and women working at his spas, and ends with Noem, having had her face re-attached, before going on a shooting spree inside a pet store.
Vance responded on his X account, writing “Well, I’ve finally made it” with a reposting of the South Park photo of him and Trump, with some responding that he missed the point of his portrayal. Kirk has used the photo of Cartman with his haircut as his new profile photo on X and posted “Conservatives are funnier than liberals”.
Our Take On Kristi Noem’s Response To South Park
Season 27 ofSouth Parkhas been focused primarily on heavy criticism of the Trump Administration and its central figures. The season premiere set the table for the rest of the episodes, showing President Trump as a power-hungry madman in a sexual relationship with Satan. Noem’s response continues to escalate the battle between the Trump Administration andSouth Park, who has skewered them for their alleged abuses of power.
More pressure may be put on Paramount Global, Comedy Central’s parent company, as the media giant recentlycancelledThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Parker and Stone show no signs of slowing down on the criticism inSouth Park, and with 48 episodes left in their current deal, the administration will likely be a target of ridicule again.
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South Park follows the irreverent misadventures of four grade-schoolers—Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny—that take place in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado. The animated series explores various social and political issues through its characters' humorous and often absurd escapades.
