Kristi Noem Slams ‘South Park’ for Mocking Her Seems to be

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has fired again at South Park after the Comedy Central collection reasonably brutally mocked her appears throughout its most up-to-date episode.

The second episode of the animated collection’ twenty seventh season portrayed Noem — who has been dubbed “ICE Barbie” by detractors — as a puppy-shooting villain hellbent on rounding up Hispanics together with a staff of beauticians who’re continuously having to re-attach her melting face.

Noem went on Glenn Beck’s podcast and was requested concerning the present. “It’s so lazy to make fun of women for how they look,” she mentioned. “Only the liberals and the extremists do that. If they want to criticize my job, go ahead and do that, but clearly they can’t. They just picked something petty like that.” Noem added that she didn’t watch the episode personally.

South Park, it must be famous, maybe much more savagely mocked President Donald Trump‘s appears within the season premiere, utilizing AI to point out him overweight and absolutely nude.

During the interview, Noem additionally took concern with media criticisms of ICE raids, saying they’ve been inaccurately portrayed. “I’m shocked every day by the amount of stories that we have to refute that just are completely false,” Noem says. “There are so many stories shared, so many things said, so many narratives, that we spend half of our time over here at the Department of Homeland Security saying, ‘That’s not true.’ Even making up anecdotal stories about families that just never even happened. Somebody like [New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani] accusing ICE of kidnapping people, pulling up in unmarked trucks and [saying] they’re wearing masks because they’re Nazis … it’s so dangerous.”

In the episode, titled “Got a Nut,” faculty counselor Mr. Mackay loses his job on account of President Trump slicing the Department of Education’s price range, so he decides to enroll to affix ICE (“I’m proud to work for ICE,” declares one masked ICE recruiter, paradoxically). Mackay watches an orientation video from Noem by which she says, “A few years ago, I had to put my puppy down by shooting it in the face, because sometimes doing what’s important means doing what’s hard.” (Noem beforehand admitted to killing her 14-month-old canine for exhibiting aggressive conduct.)

This is adopted by Noem taking pictures a number of different random puppies within the face, which turns into a operating gag all through the episode. Mackay and his ICE squad then descend on the Dora the Explorer stay present to arrest folks within the crowd. “Remember only detain the brown ones!” Noem shouts. “If it’s brown, it goes down!” At one level, Krypto the Superdog from Superman swoops in to seemingly save the day — solely to be shot useless by Noem as effectively.

Earlier this week, Homeland Security posted a picture on X from South Park‘s preview that depicted an ICE raid, together with a hyperlink to a recruitment web site to affix U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The official South Park X account shot back: “Wait, so we ARE relevant? #eatabagofdicks.”

The remark refers back to the White House‘s official statement that was issued in response to the show’s scathing twenty seventh season premiere final month, which claimed: “Just like the creators of South Park, the Left has no authentic or original content, which is why their popularity continues to hit record lows. This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention.”

The present’s blockbuster twenty seventh season return final month delivered practically 6 million cross-platform viewers and the biggest viewers share for the animated comedy in 25 years. The episode additionally obtained extra social media posts than every other within the present’s historical past.