“South Park” has pulled a transfer that might trigger Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem to utter, “You bastards!”
The long-running animated collection, created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, has responded to Noem’s complaints about its portrayal of her in final week’s episode, titled “Got a Nut.”
However as an alternative of taking a extra conventional route, like releasing an announcement, members of the “South Park” social media group opted for a a lot pettier response.
They used a picture of Noem in “Got a Nut,” which reveals the MAGA loyalist’s face melting, and made it the profile picture for the present’s social media accounts.
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“Got a Nut,” which was the second episode of Season 27, was extraordinarily vital of Noem. It bashed her and President Donald Trump’s merciless and excessive immigration insurance policies whereas additionally having loads of enjoyable reminding viewers of Noem’s dog-killing scandal.
It additionally featured an ongoing joke during which Noem’s face would randomly soften off her physique, prompting a group of stylists to hurry in and repair it by giving her Botox.
And it’s the knock to Noem’s vainness — and never the portrayal of her values — that basically appeared to miff the previous South Dakota governor.
Screenshot “South Park” through Fb
“It never ends. But it’s so lazy to just constantly make fun of women for how they look. It’s always the liberals and extremists [who] do that,” Noem advised pundit Glenn Beck on his podcast final Thursday about her depiction in “South Park.”
“If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that,” Noem added. “But clearly, they can’t. They just pick something petty like that.”
“South Park” did, nevertheless, skewer how Noem does her job. Within the episode, her “South Park” avatar goes so far as raiding a family-friendly “Dora the Explorer” efficiency and even goes to heaven to detain Latinos to satisfy Trump’s quota for immigrant arrests.
And although Noem mentioned solely “liberals and extremists” assault ladies for his or her appears, Trump himself has an extended historical past of belittling ladies for his or her look, casually calling them “horseface” and “pig.”
Screenshot “South Park” through Instagram
The present’s choice to make Noem’s melting face its new profile pic can also be a jab on the Republican’s love of social media.
Ever since Noem grew to become homeland safety secretary, she has made some extent of posting clips of herself spewing racist rhetoric about migrants whereas dolled up and sporting an on-the-nose costume.
However her melting face on “South Park” social media platforms is the present’s reminder that regardless of Noem’s efforts to make Trump’s immigration crackdown palatable, increasingly People are discovering the insurance policies straight-up ugly.
