{"id":316718,"date":"2025-11-27T12:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/316718\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T12:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:34:10","slug":"south-park-pete-hegseth-character-tear-gasses-turkey-trot-runners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/316718\/","title":{"rendered":"‘South Park’ Pete Hegseth character tear-gasses Turkey Trot runners"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Park<\/a> lampooned the administration of President Donald Trump<\/a> again on Wednesday, as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was depicted accusing participants in the town’s annual Turkey Trot of being”liberal terrorists.”\n<\/p>\n

“What’s up, guys? Pete Hegseth, Department of War,” the character said to his online followers, as he thought there was an attack going on. “We are being fired upon. There’s an uprising here, some kind of insurrection. Be sure to like and subscribe.”\n<\/p>\n

The Hegseth character went on to say that people could “hear the liberal terrorists all screaming and chanting behind us. We’re gonna take ’em on! Just another day in the Department of War. Let’s move out!”\n<\/p>\n

Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

The Hegseth character showed his team a map and indicated where they would need to go to get content.\n<\/p>\n

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem showed up to handle it, and Hegseth dismissed the idea that they would get the content.\n<\/p>\n

The ‘South Park’ crowd pictured in season 27.<\/p>\n

Comedy Central<\/p>\n

Turned out, that the shot his team heard was a gun firing to mark the start of the race, which had some trouble finding a sponsor early on. Saudi Arabia swooped in to sponsor.\n<\/p>\n

Hegseth’s team was waiting for the runners as they ran toward the finish line and fired tear gas upon the competitors when they came close. People were gasping for air.\n<\/p>\n

At one point, there was a not-so flattering song about Hegseth, set to the tune of “Danger Zone,” playing in the background, as he flew in a helicopter and fired a gun.\n<\/p>\n

“What’s up, guys? Pete Hegseth, Department of War,” the animated character said. “We’ve got the narco-terrorists on the run, and we’re gonna take them out. Yeah!”\n<\/p>\n

The show also featured a plot with Cartman choosing Tolkien to be on the gang’s team, even though Tolkien, who is Black, told him he doesn’t run. Cartman didn’t believe him, insisting that the “data shows that your race always wins races.”\n<\/p>\n

In the end, though, Tolkien ended up winning, after he and Cartman argued along the runners’ path, and Tolkien happened to cross the finish line first.\n<\/p>\n

South Park has consistently mocked the Trump administration in season 27, with Trump himself a major character and storylines such as Satan having his baby.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that we got all political,\u201d show co-creator Trey Parker told the The New York Times<\/a> in an interview this month. “It’s that politics became pop culture.”\n<\/p>\n

South Park airs at 10 p.m. ET\/PT on Comedy Central and streams the next day on Paramount+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Park lampooned the administration of President Donald Trump again on Wednesday, as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-316718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}