Kristi Noem Responds to Brutal South Park Episode Portraying Her as Puppy-Slaughtering Botox Addict: ‘So Lazy’
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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem responded to the latest episode of South Park, which skewered her as a serial killer of puppies who ordered her squadron of unqualified and inexperienced ICE agents to tackle and detain anyone who appeared Hispanic, dismissing it as a “lazy” attack on her looks and ignoring the other critiques the show lobbed at her.
President Donald Trump’s second term has featured a sharp crackdown on immigration, targeting not just the violent criminal illegal immigrants that were the centerpiece of his campaign messaging but those who have committed no crimes other than their lack of legal status, revoking temporary protected status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, and even detaining people who have shown up for their immigration court hearings. Many of the changes have been controversial, and polling shows a sharp reversal in support for the Trump immigration agenda, even among Republicans.
As the head of DHS, Noem has been at the front and center of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, a visible presence in photo ops at “Alligator Alcatraz” or the notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador, CECOT.
Wednesday’s South Park episode was highly anticipated after the season premiere’s brutal depiction of Trump as Satan’s lover and sporting talkative but very tiny genitalia — drawing a furious response from the White House insisting the show “hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years.”
The day before the episode aired, DHS took a still from the upcoming show and shared it on social media with the ICE job recruitment website link. The South Park creators replied in their trademark fashion, firing back with a reference to the White House’s statement, “Wait, so we ARE relevant?” and a hashtag encouraging DHS to “eat a bag of dicks.”
In the episode, the Noem character is shown with the heavy makeup and hair extensions that are commonly seen in her public appearances, but the cartoon version suffers from a repeatedly melting face — sometimes even sliding right off her head and scurrying across the floor — as she yells for a bevy of assistants who rush in and repair the damage, accompanied by industrial sound effects, as if they were using power tools to fix her visage.
She’s also shown shooting and killing puppies in virtually every scene, a reference to Noem’s actual admission in her book last year that she had shot and killed a puppy named Cricket after deeming her “untrainable” and “less than worthless.” Each of these scenes shows the Noem character reacting with fury any time she sees a puppy, firing multiple shots as the puppy whimpers and dies.
The core plot of the episode focuses Mr. Mackey, a counselor at South Park Elementary, loses his job and applies to work for ICE out of financial desperation. Mackey is shocked at the lax hiring standards and complete lack of training. In the orientation video, Noem kills multiple puppies, and then Mackey and the other ICE recruits are immediately sent out for a raid.
The ICE raids occur at multiple venues, including a Dora the Explorer show and even heaven, with the Noem character telling the agents to target the Latinos they see. “No more Brownies in Heaven!” she triumphantly declares after they’ve rounded up vans full of Hispanic angels.
The real Noem was asked about the episode by Glenn Beck on his podcast Thursday. Neither Beck or Noem said they had watched the episode, but she seemed to have been aware of the fact they mocked her appearance.
The relevant section starts around 1:42:42 (full episode posted here):
BECK: Well, I don’t know about you, I would imagine you’re far more busy than I ever have been, but when South Park did an episode — and Cartman played me the whole time —
NOEM: Oh, really?
BECK: Yeah, oh yeah. It took me about a year before I even — I didn’t even know it happened until like maybe a year later, I was so busy. And I ended up, years later, watching it with my son and we both laughed over it, but welcome to the club!
NOEM: Well, I guess so. I didn’t get to see it. I was going over budget numbers and stuff.
But you know, I just think it’s — 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.
Noem has been attacked for her appearance long before Trey Parker and Matt Stone mocked her in their cartoon, with her perfectly coifed hair, heavy makeup, Rolex watch, and form-fitting combat-style uniform being criticized as “ICE cosplay” and inappropriate for the serious nature of immigration enforcement.
It was, however, inaccurate for her to suggest that the South Park creative team only made fun of the way she looked and didn’t criticize her for her job. The lowering of standards and inflated pay for ICE agents, the fact they have been sent out on raids in wearing face masks and plainclothes, the complaints about abusive tactics and racial targeting by ICE agents, these are all actual issues that have been the subject of intensive reporting throughout Trump’s second term so far — and provided ample inspiration for the show’s writers.
And, by her own admission in a book she chose to publish, Noem did in fact shoot and kill her dog without first trying to rehome her or get the assistance of a professional dog trainer, a decision that shocked many pet lovers across America.
South Park’s creators remain unfazed by any feathers they may be ruffling in the White House, with the show’s social media accounts updated to promote the new episode — and the cartoon Noem with her face melting off as the profile photo.
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