The Department of Homeland Security has gone silent on South Park after the show’s latest episode brutally mocked Secretary Kristi Noem—despite previously using the show to hype its recruitment efforts.

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.