South Park Stands Up to JD Vance and Kristi Noem

Oh but it gets better

Right when I thought South Park couldn't outdo itself, it indeed did. Their newest episode that aired last night made fun of more people in Trump’s MAGA sphere, and I’m living for it. Who would’ve thought that South Park producers would have more bravery than the mass media?

This all started two weeks ago when South Park kicked off their 27th season debut with one of the spiciest, politically charged episodes yet. Petty graphics, insinuations of Trump's “micropenis,” and his infatuation with the devil were just a part of the extended episode.

VIA South Park Twitter

The episode last night follows two storylines. One features the resident bigot, Eric Cartman, who is angry that a fellow fourth grader, Clyde, has risen to fame as a white nationalist podcaster. Clyde essentially makes all of the offensive claims in the fascist handbook: belittling women, Jewish people, Black people, and other minority groups.

So in response, Cartman decides to style his hair after Charlie Kirk’s signature style, and trolls college girls on social media while saying that he is a “master debater”.

The second short line highlights the South Park Elementary’s counsellor, Mr. Mackey, losing her job due to budget cuts. Out of desperation, he joins ICE and, alongside his fellow officers, starts to do his job under Kristi Noem's ignorant supervision. To which Noem says during a raid, “Only detain the brown ones! If it’s brown, it goes down!”

Of course, the two storylines come together eventually when Clyde and Mackey are gifted a work trip to Mar-a-Lago. The country club is portrayed as a tacky, low-rent parody of the bizarre 1970s/80s American fantasy drama Fantasy Island, with President Trump and Vice President JD Vance taking the place of Ricardo Montalban and Hervé Villechaize’s iconic characters.

This time around, they laid off Trump, but they went in hard on Kristi Noem. She spent her time gunning down adorable puppies and having a hard time keeping her massively botoxed face from falling off her skull.

In the end, this distorted version of Fantasy Island serves as a fitting symbol for the state of American politics today… absurd, theatrical, and disconnected from reality.

By casting Trump and Vance in these roles, the scene becomes a parody of power, showing how political leadership has turned into a strange performance. It leaves us questioning not just who is leading, but what kind of fantasy the audience truly wants to believe in.