‘South Park’ mocks President Trump over Department of Homeland Security ICE hiring position
“South Park” trolled President Donald Trump after the Department of Homeland Security used screenshots from the show in an ICE recruiting post.
“South Park” is taking a look at President Donald Trump’s White House renovations in a spooky new episode.
The latest installment of the animated show, which aired on Halloween night, parodied President Trump’s recent demolition of the East Wing of the White House to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, and the series also featured Trump having a romantic relationship with and fathering a child with Satan.
Near the beginning of the episode titled “The Woman in the Hat,” President Trump is shown demolishing the east wing of the White House to make room for a ballroom, much to the chagrin of Satan, who thought the renovations were for a nursery school.
In keeping with the episode’s Halloween theme, advisor Stephen Miller quickly warned the president that he “might have unleashed some kind of anger by destroying the East Wing.” President Trump then begins to be possessed by a creepy woman wearing a hat. The woman is first lady Melania Trump, wearing a large hat that covers her face, appearing like a ghost at the White House and standing eerily in the corner of the room.
The episode also cruelly mocks Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is depicted fawning over Trump with excessive praise, in a vulgar running gag in which she is constantly unaware that she has feces on her nose, referring to the idea that she is a “brown-nosed person.”
Bondi and other members of the Trump administration eventually hold a séance in the White House to confront the spirit, but Trump suddenly tries to stop the séance when the spirit possesses Bondi and mentions Jeffrey Epstein’s name.
Since Season 27 began in July, South Park has repeatedly mocked President Trump and members of his administration, making it an unusually politically focused period for the show. Trump’s relationship with Satan is an ongoing storyline spanning numerous episodes, with Vice President J.D. Vance, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr also appearing as recurring characters.
“The Woman in the Hat” has gone surprisingly meta to address critics of the show’s recent political focus. Early on, Stan Marsh makes a speech about how “South Park sucks right now” because of “political” things, and everything he says about South Park reflects a criticism of the series itself. So Stan started an online community dedicated to the idea that South Park had fallen from grace, and it unexpectedly took off. After gaining attention online, Stan uses the move to launch a new cryptocurrency.
Seeming to be directly appealing to fans who want the show to return to storylines that focus less on Trump and the White House, the episode ends with Kyle’s remark that “things are going to get back to normal, and in the meantime, we need to make the most of where we are.”
The White House previously criticized “South Park” when the series launched a parody of Trump in July, with press secretary Taylor Rogers saying in a statement to USA TODAY, “The show has not been relevant in over 20 years and is hanging on to an uninspired idea in a desperate bid for attention.”
The latest installment of “South Park” arrived two days later than scheduled. The show usually airs on Wednesdays, and an episode was originally scheduled to air on October 29th, but Comedy Central announced the day before that it would instead air a “special Halloween night episode” on October 31st.
The reason for the postponement was not disclosed, but it is not the first time this year that “South Park” has been postponed. In September, the fifth episode of season 27 was postponed for a week, hours before it was scheduled to air. At the time, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone said they were unable to complete the episode in time.
“Apparently, if you do everything at the last minute, things can go wrong,” Parker and Stone said. “This is our fault. We didn’t get it done in time. Thank you to Comedy Central and ‘South Park’ fans for your understanding.”
When will the next “South Park” be aired?
The move to Fridays appears to be a one-time change for “South Park,” as the show’s next three episodes are all scheduled to air on Wednesdays. According to Comedy Central, new episodes are scheduled to air on November 12th, November 26th, and December 10th.
