Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wasn’t laughing at being spoofed on South Park, calling the portrayal of her as “so lazy.”
On the most recent episode, the animated Noem was shown, among other things, in an ICE orientation video, first in a chair being made up by a make up crew. She then tells the recruits “sometimes doing what’s important means doing what’s hard.” She then shoots puppies, mocking her admission in her memoir that she once shot her own dog.
On Glenn Beck’s podcast, the host told Noem “welcome to the club.” He recounted how he became aware that he was once spoofed on South Park, but didn’t become aware of it until “maybe a year later.” He watched the episode with his son, he said, “and we both laughed over it.”
Noem told Beck she didn’t get to see the episode, but “It never ends, but it’s so lazy, to make fun of women and 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 pick something petty like that.”
South Park has a long history of parodying figures on both sides of the aisle. The episode actually did skewer the Trump administration policies, too, with the show taking on ICE’s arrests of undocumented immigrants. That included a raid on Dora the Explorer, with Noem saying, “Remember, only detain the Brown ones. if it’s Brown it goes down.” Heaven gets raided, too.
Noem’s response to the episode contrasts to the DHS X account, which posted a picture from the episode and a link to its recruitment site.
