The show doubled down after Noem publicly decried the portrayal as “lazy,” and turned her liquefied visage into the profile photo of its social media accounts. “South Park” went even further, however, in an alternate end-credits scene that didn’t make the television broadcast.
The end-credits scene shown during last week’s broadcast saw Noem and her band of ICE agents singing “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” after a bloody raid on President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. The alternate version arguably skewers her even further.
The scene shows Noem, who infamously admitted in her 2024 memoir “No Going Back” to killing her family dog because of its “aggressive personality,” waltzing into a pet store fully armed — and unloading round after round into the canines in the building.
When one puppy tries to escape, Noem hobbles after it — and shoots it in the face.
Noem has yet to respond to the newly highlighted scene, but seemed to detest her overall portrayal on the show. The Trump official told conservative pundit Glenn Beck last week that she hadn’t seen the episode, but apparently heard about its unflattering portrayal of her looks.
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“It’s so lazy to constantly make fun of women for how they look,” Noem said on his podcast. “Only the liberals and the extremists do that. If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that, but clearly they can’t. They just pick something petty like that.”
“South Park” returns Wednesday for the third episode of its ongoing 27th season.
