'South Park' hurls DHS's own post back in its face as feud with Trump escalates
Robert Davis
August 5, 2025
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BERLIN - MAR 15: South park cartoon characters: Kenny, Eric, Stan, Kyle, Butters as toy figures isolated on white in Berlin, March 15. 2021 in Germany. South Park is an American animated sitcom. (Photo credit: Savvapanf Photo / Shutterstock)
A social media spat escalated Tuesday between the satirical animated television show "South Park" and the Trump administration.
In a post on X, the Department of Homeland Security used a South Park-style animation in a recruiting post, just days after South Park released a trailer for its upcoming episode featuring DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. The post was made after a White House spokesperson said the show "hasn't been relevant in 20 years' after the first episode of the new season depicted President Donald Trump in unflattering ways.
South Park clapped back in a reply to DHS's recruiting post.
"Wait, so we are relevant?" the post reads.
It added a vulgar hashtag: "#eatabagofd----."
DHS has tried to recruit more agents to meet Trump's aggressive goal of 3,000 immigration arrests a day. The agency has created new benefits like a $50,000 recruting bonus and up to $60,000 of student loan forgiveness for new recruits. It has also published World War 2-style recruiting propaganda featuring American figures like Uncle Sam.
The South Park trailer also indicated that Trump's immigration policy would be a theme in the new episode. The trailer features the character Mr. Mackey on a ride-along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The popular character Cartman appears as Charlie Kirk, who has vociferously defended Trump's immigration policies.
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Robert Davis
August 5, 2025
RAW STORY
BERLIN - MAR 15: South park cartoon characters: Kenny, Eric, Stan, Kyle, Butters as toy figures isolated on white in Berlin, March 15. 2021 in Germany. South Park is an American animated sitcom. (Photo credit: Savvapanf Photo / Shutterstock)
A social media spat escalated Tuesday between the satirical animated television show "South Park" and the Trump administration.
In a post on X, the Department of Homeland Security used a South Park-style animation in a recruiting post, just days after South Park released a trailer for its upcoming episode featuring DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. The post was made after a White House spokesperson said the show "hasn't been relevant in 20 years' after the first episode of the new season depicted President Donald Trump in unflattering ways.
South Park clapped back in a reply to DHS's recruiting post.
"Wait, so we are relevant?" the post reads.
It added a vulgar hashtag: "#eatabagofd----."
DHS has tried to recruit more agents to meet Trump's aggressive goal of 3,000 immigration arrests a day. The agency has created new benefits like a $50,000 recruting bonus and up to $60,000 of student loan forgiveness for new recruits. It has also published World War 2-style recruiting propaganda featuring American figures like Uncle Sam.
The South Park trailer also indicated that Trump's immigration policy would be a theme in the new episode. The trailer features the character Mr. Mackey on a ride-along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The popular character Cartman appears as Charlie Kirk, who has vociferously defended Trump's immigration policies.
See the post below or by clicking here.
'Bad faith': DHS admin slammed over 'racist' mistranslation of Latina lawmaker's speech
Matthew Chapman
August 5, 2025
Matthew Chapman
August 5, 2025
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, with Ecuador’s Minister of Interior John Reinberg (not pictured), speaks during a press briefing at the Ecuadorian Presidential Palace, July 31, 2025, in Quito, Ecuador. Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS
The Department of Homeland Security went running with a viral — and dog-whistle-laden — mistranslation of a speech Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) partially gave in Spanish during a visit to Guatemala, wrote Robert McCoy in a scathing analysis for The New Republic published on Tuesday.
Ramirez, a progressive lawmaker whose parents were undocumented immigrants from Guatemala, gave the speech last week, during the second Panamerican Congress in Mexico City, and the origin of the mistranslation was the far-right outlet The Blaze.
That outlet, noted McCoy, "reported that Ramirez said: 'I’m a proud Guatemalan, before I’m an American,'" which swiftly went viral on MAGA corners of social media. "A video of the event shows Ramirez, who began her speech in English, saying she wanted to conclude her remarks with a few words in Spanish ('...quiero terminar diciendo unas palabras en español…'), because she is 'very proudly Guatemalan' ('...porque yo soy guatemalteca con mucho orgullo…'). But, she continues, 'Primero que soy americana' —which translates roughly to 'First, I am American.'"
This is peculiarly phrased, wrote McCoy, but the most reasonable interpretation would be the opposite of what The Blaze asserted.
Nonetheless, he continued, a number of far-right lawmakers, including Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), pushed the false translation as a "bad-faith right-wing firestorm blazed."
The Trump administration also got involved.
"The DHS’s official X account shared the snippet with a Theodore Roosevelt quote about there being 'no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.'"
Ramirez, for her part, has fought back against the attacks, stating, “Anyone who denies our claim on this country simply because we dare to honor our diverse heritage and immigrant roots only exposes how fragile and small-minded their own idea of America really is.”
All of this comes as Trump's DHS has come under fire for increasingly draconian crackdowns on immigrants, from habeas-free deportations to foreign megaprisons, to the use of a brutal detention camp constructed in the Florida Everglades.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, with Ecuador’s Minister of Interior John Reinberg (not pictured), speaks during a press briefing at the Ecuadorian Presidential Palace, July 31, 2025, in Quito, Ecuador. Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS
The Department of Homeland Security went running with a viral — and dog-whistle-laden — mistranslation of a speech Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) partially gave in Spanish during a visit to Guatemala, wrote Robert McCoy in a scathing analysis for The New Republic published on Tuesday.
Ramirez, a progressive lawmaker whose parents were undocumented immigrants from Guatemala, gave the speech last week, during the second Panamerican Congress in Mexico City, and the origin of the mistranslation was the far-right outlet The Blaze.
That outlet, noted McCoy, "reported that Ramirez said: 'I’m a proud Guatemalan, before I’m an American,'" which swiftly went viral on MAGA corners of social media. "A video of the event shows Ramirez, who began her speech in English, saying she wanted to conclude her remarks with a few words in Spanish ('...quiero terminar diciendo unas palabras en español…'), because she is 'very proudly Guatemalan' ('...porque yo soy guatemalteca con mucho orgullo…'). But, she continues, 'Primero que soy americana' —which translates roughly to 'First, I am American.'"
This is peculiarly phrased, wrote McCoy, but the most reasonable interpretation would be the opposite of what The Blaze asserted.
Nonetheless, he continued, a number of far-right lawmakers, including Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), pushed the false translation as a "bad-faith right-wing firestorm blazed."
The Trump administration also got involved.
"The DHS’s official X account shared the snippet with a Theodore Roosevelt quote about there being 'no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.'"
Ramirez, for her part, has fought back against the attacks, stating, “Anyone who denies our claim on this country simply because we dare to honor our diverse heritage and immigrant roots only exposes how fragile and small-minded their own idea of America really is.”
All of this comes as Trump's DHS has come under fire for increasingly draconian crackdowns on immigrants, from habeas-free deportations to foreign megaprisons, to the use of a brutal detention camp constructed in the Florida Everglades.
Robert Davis
August 5, 2025
RAW STORY
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks to employees at the Department of Homeland Security, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, in Washington, U.S. Manuel Balce Ceneta/Pool via REUTERS
The Department of Homeland Security melted down on social media Tuesday after NBC News reported on conditions inside some immigration detention facilities.
According to the NBC News report, 510 "credible" cases of human rights abuses were discovered at detention facilities across the country after a months-long investigation by Sen. Jon Ossoff's (D-GA) office. Those cases include 41 allegations of "physical or sexual abuse, as well as 18 alleged reports of mistreatment of children in custody," the report states.
DHS responded to the report on social media.
"FAKE NEWS," DHS posted from its official X account.
"Any claim that there are subprime conditions at ICE detention facilities are FALSE," the post continued. "All detainees are provided with proper meals, quality water, blankets, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers."
The report Ossoff's office compiled relied on a whistleblower who witnessed a pregnant woman sleeping on the floor of a detention center, according to NBC News.
Another pregnant woman told Rep. Ayana Pressley (D-MA) that she miscarried twice while in a DHS facility.
"Regardless of our views on immigration policy, the American people do not support the abuse of detainees and prisoners...it’s more important than ever to shine a light on what’s happening behind bars and barbed wire, especially and most shockingly to children,” Ossoff told NBC News.
DHS labeled the testimony included in the report as "lies."
"Make no mistake, these types of lies are contributing to the over 830% increase in assaults on the men and women of ICE who put their lives on the line every day to arrest violent criminal illegal aliens to protect and defend the lives of American citizens," the DHS post reads.
Read the entire report by clicking here.
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