{"id":1971726,"date":"2025-08-21T04:32:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1971726"},"modified":"2025-08-21T04:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:32:02","slug":"south-park-targets-federal-takeover-of-dc-police-in-latest-episode-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/south-park-targets-federal-takeover-of-dc-police-in-latest-episode-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;South Park&#8217; targets federal takeover of DC police in latest episode | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 \u201cSouth Park\u201d continued its cartoon assault on the Trump administration Wednesday, with an episode that addressed the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/washington-dc-federal-police-takeover-national-guard-fb91f9884c928b98036754885a7c0180\">federal takeover<\/a> of Washington, D.C.&#8217;s police department.<\/p>\n<p>A 20-second promo released by Comedy Central depicted the recurring character \u201cTowelie\u201d \u2014 an anthropomorphic towel \u2014 riding in a bus past the U.S. Supreme Court building and White House, where armed troops were patrolling. A tank rolled by in front of the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The episode also roasted world leaders and tech CEOs for kowtowing to President Donald Trump. Eventually Towelie ended up with the president in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Park\u201d creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone recently <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/south-park-trump-492c0bf68acbe3d18682891301242ef6\">signed a reported $1.5 billion, five-year deal<\/a> with Paramount for new episodes and streaming rights to their series, which began its 27th season this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Their second episode of the season depicted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shooting puppies, a reference to a story from the former South Dakota governor&#8217;s biography where she said she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kristi-noem-book-dog-killing-5710b302e33f61c697f20ab3b227a19b\">killed the family dog<\/a> because of its behavioral issues. Noem is also depicted being trailed by a team of beauticians having to reattach her face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s so easy to make fun of women for how they look,\u201d Noem told Glenn Beck in response to the episode.<\/p>\n<p>The season premiere mocked Trump&#8217;s body in a raunchy manner and depicted him sharing a bed with Satan. That scenario reappeared in Wednesday&#8217;s episode.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has dismissed \u201cSouth Park\u201d as a fourth-rate, no-longer-relevant show. But it has been attracting attention; Comedy Central said the Noem episode had the highest audience share in the show&#8217;s history, a reference to the percentage of people with televisions on watching the cartoon.<\/p>\n<hr\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yakimaherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 \u201cSouth Park\u201d continued its cartoon assault on the Trump administration Wednesday, with an episode that addressed the federal takeover of Washington, D.C.&#8217;s police department. A 20-second promo released by Comedy Central depicted the recurring character \u201cTowelie\u201d \u2014 an anthropomorphic towel \u2014 riding in a bus past the U.S. Supreme Court building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1971727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741],"class_list":["post-1971726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/South-Park-targets-federal-takeover-of-DC-police-in-latest.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}