Kristi Noem, the current 8th United States secretary of homeland security, was recently featured in an episode of the animated parody series South Park. The series recently made headlines with its Season 27 premiere that satirized current United States president Donald Trump. Now that the season’s second episode has its sights set on Noem, she has fired back in a new statement.
Noem recently discussed the episode while speaking on Glenn Beck’s radio show, as shared via Variety, which revealed some strong feelings that Noem has for the animated series. It’s worth noting that South Park satirizes just about any element featured in society and politics, but Noem insists that the parody of herself on the series is both “so lazy” and “petty.”
Her statement further targets the series as well as liberals for criticizing the physical appearance of women, given that the South Park episode claims she uses Botox in addition to serving as an ICE agent that’s eager to shoot puppies. Here’s what she shared:
“It never ends, but it’s so lazy to constantly make fun of women for how they look,” Noem states. Interestingly, however, she also states not to have seen the episode because she was “going over budget numbers and stuff.”
Noem continues to blame “liberals” for the show’s recent episode:
“It’s always the liberals and the extremists who do that,” Noem added. “If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that, but clearly they can’t, they just pick something petty like that.”
With only two episodes of its latest season out at the time of this writing, the new season of South Park seems to be making major waves in the political world and on television. We’ll have to see where South Park takes its satire next, but with Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, and even J.D. Vance having been parodied, there’s no telling where it’ll go from here.
South Park was recently renewed for a total of 50 new episodes, spread across five seasons, so there will be plenty of more content to come. Stay tuned to ScreenGeek for any additional updates regarding the series and what reactions it might prompt as we have them.