South Park, now in its 27th season, is renowned for satirizing American politics and culture. The White House's recent and pointed dismissal of the show as irrelevant, following an episode which parodied Trump, contrasts sharply with a federal agency now using South Park imagery for recruitment.

The Season 27 premiere of the Comedy Central animated series, "South Park", has stirred controversy this week. The episode, which aired on Wednesday, July 23, features Trump crawling into bed with Satan, a reference to the president's recent attacks on the media.

ICE vehicles swarm heaven and masked agents take down its winged residents, roughing them up and tearing off halos. “Remember, only detain the brown ones,” Noem tells them. “If it’s brown, it goes down.