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Dominique Hines

Puppies shot, Satan oiled: South Park doubles down after Trump backlash

South Park just responded to its Trump backlash the only way it knows how: with Satan’s oiled-up abs, Kristi Noem gunning down puppies, and JD Vance preparing the devil for a threesome.

After getting slammed by Donald Trump’s campaign for being “woke and irrelevant” last week, after they featured his character literally in the bed with the devil exposing his tiny penis, the second episode of Season 27 makes it crystal clear - the heat is only rising.

And nothing, not even a furious president, is going to stop them. The episode, titled South Park: Entering The Panderverse Part 2, picks up with Mr. Mackey getting fired and discovering that, surprise, middle-aged white men aren’t exactly in demand anymore.

He’s swiftly deported by ICE agents who gleefully confuse him for Mexican, alongside Dora the Explorer, who’s carted off mid-sentence in an immigration raid.

But the real carnage is happening in the Republican storyline, where Kristi Noem, introduced as “a governor who shoots puppies”, does exactly that, on-screen, twice.

The cartoon doesn’t even pretend to exaggerate. It just takes her own bizarre memoir confession and animates it into something that would make PETA weep.

Then there’s JD Vance. The newly minted senator and MAGA golden boy is portrayed as a baby oil–wielding sidekick, sensually preparing Satan for group sex with conservative donors.

Trump in Southpark (Paramount)

There is butt-cheek glistening. There is full nipple. There are sound effects. Whatever line you thought South Park wouldn’t cross they jumped it with a cannonball.

Fans were stunned, appalled, and, in some cases, fully on board. “Strange and unhinged,” one posted. “And they’re not even trying to calm down.” Another wrote: “South Park is now played out. Yawn.” However, many loved the move.

One said: ‘I adore South Park now more than ever lol’, while another added: ‘Trump said ‘stop’ and South Park said, ‘nope, just starting.’

After last week’s takedown of studio diversity hires and AI-generated casting, the follow-up doesn’t just double down - it spirals gleefully off the deep end. Dora’s deportation is played for giggles.

(L-R) South Park writers/creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker (Frazer Harrison/Getty)

Kristi Noem’s real-life scandals are turned into blood-soaked punchlines. And every single character in MAGA-land is grotesque, greasy, and grunting with lust for the devil.

As for Trump himself? He doesn’t make a direct appearance, but his fingerprints are all over the backlash that inspired this unhinged revenge cartoon. South Park clearly saw the headlines, saw the disses, and chose violence. Literal violence, in Noem’s case.

And the result? Maybe their most off-the-wall episode in years.

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