US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticized the latest episode of South Park that showed the official having undergone cosmetic procedures and shooting dogs, The Guardian reported on Friday.
“It’s so lazy to just constantly make fun of women for how they look,” Noem remarked on Thursday’s episode of the Glenn Beck Program podcast. “If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that. But clearly they can’t – they just pick something petty like that.”
The South Park episode portrayed Noem's cartoon version with heavy makeup and a melting face, and is also shown shooting and killing dogs on an instructional video used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
In 2024, Noem disclosed in a memoir that she shot and killed her family’s dog on a farm. She faced widespread backlash when she wrote that she shot to death an "untrainable" dog that she "hated" on her family farm.
The episode, according to The Guardian, alluded to the attention she has sought by staging photos at ICE raids and in front of a cell at the Cecot prison in El Salvador, where the Trump administration has deported migrants.
White House condemns South Park episode of Trump
The White House last month issued a statement about South Park over the show's portrayal of US President Donald Trump.
"South Park has been irrelevant for more than 20 years, and it's barely surviving, dragging along with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt to get attention," said Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman.
The series introduced Trump's character for the first time, who has been portrayed so far by Mr. Garrison, with a voiceover identical to the one Saddam Hussein had at the time.
Similar to the way the Iraqi dictator was presented, Trump is also shown with real pictures of himself (and not cartoons), and just like in the case of Saddam, Trump is also in a sexual relationship with the devil.
Amit Slonim contributed to this report.