Overview

• In interviews on Glenn Beck’s program and on CNN, Noem rejected the portrayal as “lazy” and “sexist” mockery of her appearance.
• The episode exaggerates her botoxed features with recurring scenes of makeup teams re-fastening her face and a satirical ICE orientation where she shoots multiple dogs.
• One gag references her memoir admission of shooting her puppy for being “untrainable,” extending it into a fictional ICE recruitment speech.
• The DHS’s X account used a still from the episode to promote joining ICE, prompting South Park’s official account to retort, “Wait, so we ARE relevant?”
• The White House previously branded the series “irrelevant” and “hanging on by a thread,” highlighting a tug-of-war between political authorities and satirical media.