The button-pushing comedy series South Park recently took aim at the Trump administration to kick off their newest season. Well known for its “nothing is off limits” satirical comedy, some conservatives were raising eyebrows at the show’s latest episodes featuring the Trump administration, including Wednesday’s episode which took swings at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
With many calling the show biased and unfair, since the show never satirized Joe Biden (except in one deleted scene from a 2008 episode that was included in DVD releases), some in the administration had leaned into the joke and laughed along, like JD Vance, saying he had sarcastically “made it.”
Even conservative personality Charlie Kirk of TPUSA also was satirized in the sitcom, and had gotten on board with the joke by changing his X profile picture to the caricatured version of him from the show.
However others, like Secretary Noem, were not as congenial toward the South Park fictionalized version of themselves.
On the August 7 episode of The Glenn Beck Program, Noem spoke about the TV show, calling it “so lazy” and “petty” for mocking her appearance and personality rather than her position as DHS Secretary (click “expand”):
NOEM: I just think it's– yeah. It– it never ends. But it's so lazy to just constantly make fun of women for how they look.
BECK: Yeah.
NOEM: Only the liberals and the extremists do that. It's– if they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that. But clearly they can't. They just pick something petty like that.
Noem was portrayed by South Park as an air-headed, botox-filled caricature who kidnapped Hispanic people (including Dora the Explorer) and killed puppies.
South Park has been known for decades for its unapologetic style of comedy. They have poked fun at every group imaginable, and when Trump himself has been a larger-than-life personality, a few shots from the show could be reasonably expected, with some shrapnel landing on those associated with him.
But it’s important to note that Biden during his presidential campaign, presidency or his administration, were never featured or mocked in the show.
In the end, the skewering seemed less about nuanced cultural commentary and more like a partisan takedown; one that relied heavily on shock value over satire. If South Park aimed to stir controversy, it succeeded. But this felt more like a deliberate hit job than anything else.
The entire transcript is below click "expand" to read.
The Glenn Beck Program
August 7th, 2025
TIMESTAMP 1:42:07
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GLENN BECK: Well, I don't know about you. I– I imagine you were, you're far more busy than– than I ever have been. But I remember when I– when South Park did an episode and I– Cartman played me the whole time.
KRISTI NOEM (SEC. HOMELAND SECURITY): Oh really?
BECK: It took– yeah. Oh yeah. It took me about a year before even– I didn't even know it happened until, like, maybe a year later. I was so busy. And I– I ended up, years later, watching it with my son and we both laughed over it. But welcome to the club.
NOEM: Well, I guess so. I didn't get to see it. I was– I was going over budget numbers and stuff, but, you know–
BECK: Yeah.
NOEM: I just think it's– yeah. It– it never ends. But it's so lazy to just constantly make fun of women for how they look.
BECK: Yeah.
NOEM: Only the liberals and the extremists do that. It's– if they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that. But clearly they can't. They just pick something petty like that.
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