South Park is back in savage form, this time skewering President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in its latest episode, “Got A Nut,” which aired August 6 on Comedy Central.
The episode, a satire-heavy jab at the current administration, follows school counselor Mr. Mackey as he’s fired from his job and, desperate for cash, joins ICE. From there, things spiral into a chaotic fever dream featuring botched immigration raids, botox, Satan, and Mar-a-Lago madness.
In classic South Park fashion, the show pulls no punches. Noem is depicted as a glam-obsessed ICE agent with a penchant for botox, photo ops, and gunning down puppies, referencing her widely criticized 2024 memoir admission of killing her “untrainable” dog. In one ICE raid on a live Dora the Explorer show, cartoon-Noem immediately shoots a service dog in the crowd.
Later, during a raid on heaven, she instructs agents: “Remember, only detain the brown ones.” The episode also features a parody of an ICE recruitment video with the jingle: “We don’t ask for experience, just show up!” Watch below:
Mr. Mackey’s rise through the ranks leads him to Mar-a-Lago, where Trump names him the “new face of Homeland Security” because Noem’s “face freaks me out.” In the scene’s surreal climax, Trump removes his pants to reveal Satan reading in bed—a gag that also ropes in JD Vance, who is portrayed as Trump’s diminutive lackey, in the vein of Fantasy Island’s Tattoo. Trump grows irritated and literally boots Vance offscreen.
Following the episode’s broadcast, Vance took to X (formerly Twitter) with a self-deprecating response: “Well, I’ve finally made it.”
Noem, however, was less amused. Speaking on Glenn Beck’s radio show days later, she admitted she hadn’t seen the episode (“I was going over budget numbers and stuff”) but still took offense. “It’s so lazy to constantly make fun of women for how they look,” the 53-year-old said. “It’s always the liberals and the extremists who do that. If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead—but clearly they can’t. They just pick something petty like that.”
The criticism comes days after ICE posted its real-life recruitment video using South Park’s Mr. Mackey in an apparent attempt to ride the wave of buzz.
This isn’t South Park’s first rodeo with the Trump administration. The show has consistently lampooned political figures, but with “Got A Nut,” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone turn the absurdity dial to eleven, using their signature mix of satire and shock to roast the highest levels of government—and apparently, ICE’s marketing strategy, too.
Cain’s support for strict immigration enforcement has drawn extra scrutiny, especially given Superman’s fictional status as an alien immigrant himself. Dean Cain previously criticized James Gunn’s new Superman film as “woke,” and the symbolism of deporting an immigrant, even one from Krypton, is not lost on observers.
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