The Trump Administration’s Secretary of War is recast as an overeager content creator who mistakes a 5K race for an Antifa uprising<\/p>\n
\n\tAmong the many members of this Trump Administration<\/a> to be spoofed on the current season of South Park<\/a> \u2014 easily one of the wildest yet<\/a> \u2014 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth<\/a> has so far been spared. That is, until last night. During a Thanksgiving-themed episode titled \u201cTurkey Trot,\u201d Hegseth, a former Fox News anchor and military servicemember, was depicted as an Instagram Reels-obsessed content creator sent to town on Trump\u2019s orders to free Peter Thiel, who you might recall was arrested in the previous episode. \u201cDon\u2019t just make a bunch of content. Like, actually go and do something,\u201d South Park\u2019s Trump tells Hegseth.<\/p>\n \n\tElsewhere, the town is planning to host a 5k Turkey Trot that is, naturally, sponsored by Saudi Arabia. The only caveat? Contestants can\u2019t speak ill of the Saudi Royal Family. Cartman recruits Token to his team in hopes of winning the $5,000 prize, and in a send-up of the increasingly prevalent ideas of race science permeating through conservative circles, describes himself as a \u201cracing scientist,\u201d noting that Token\u2019s race always wins races.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tThe stage is thus set for an Eddington-style standoff, as Hegseth arrives in South Park and immediately mistakes the race for an Antifa uprising. The quick-thinking Secretary of War immediately starts streaming the event before being accosted by Director of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who ends up shooting a dog in a scenario seemingly plucked from Noem\u2019s memoir, which caused a stir during the 2024 election. The episode ends with Hegseth botching the Peter Thiel extraction and ending up in jail himself right alongside Thiel.<\/p>\n \n\tThis latest season of South Park has consistently raised eyebrows as it takes on the current administration\u2019s key figures head-on. All the while, they\u2019ve battled their network, Paramount+, which recently completed a merger with David Ellison\u2019s Skydance in a deal that many believe came with political assurances to the current administration. For more than twenty years, South Park has made skewering pop culture its defining ethos. Co-creator Trey Parker recently told the New York Times <\/a>that \u201cIt\u2019s not that we got all political, it\u2019s that politics became pop culture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump Administration’s Secretary of War is recast as an overeager content creator who mistakes a 5K race…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,1572,4210,644],"class_list":{"0":"post-317307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-pete-hegseth","10":"tag-south-park","11":"tag-trump-administration"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317307","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=317307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}