‘Extremists': Trump offical's South Park rage
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has blasted the 'liberals and extremists' and accused them of 'making fun of women'.
In its new season South Park, created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, has gone to town on the Trump administration. In multiple episodes it has portrayed the US president as having tiny genitalia and being the whiny boyfriend of an exasperated Satan.
South Park has also now focused on Ms Noem who has spent a lot of time in her role donning a flak jacket and blue police cap as she joins officers on immigration raids. The raids have been lauded by Trump supporters as rounding up illegal immigrants but criticised by other for being cruel and sweeping up law abiding US residents.
In episode two of the new season, in her flak jacket and cap, she raids at Dora the Explorer concert hauling away Dora and arrest anyone vaguely Hispanic. She also continually shoots dogs – in a reference to the time the real Ms Noem shot her family's dog in a gravel pit after she grew tired of its behaviour.
Her face also droops and falls off in an unkind nod top her plastic surgery and Botox.
Speaking to podcaster Glenn Beck on Thursday, US time, Ms Noem criticised the episode but admitted she hadn't seen the episode in question.
'It never ends. But it's so lazy to constantly make fun of women for how they look.
'Only the liberals and the extremists do that.
'If they wanted to criticise my job, go ahead and do that, but clearly they can't,' she added.
'They just pick something petty like that.'
Yes, the show did poke fun at her plastic surgery. But her portrayal was mostly about how she dies her job.
Rather than just letting South Park, a show which has famously skewered just about everyone, slide, the Trump administration has been pushing back on its new series. Which, of course, has just made it seem like the White House is thin skinned and has keep the show in the headline and likely rating.
'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,' a White House spokesman raged after the first episode featuring Mr Trump.
After last week's second episode, which also featured JD Vance, the vice president tweeted an image of himself from the show and tweeted 'Well, I've finally mead it'.
The South Park account retweeted the image with the caption 'Wait, so we ARE relevant'' and then added the hashtag 'eat a bag of d****s'.
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