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A marijuana farm is shut down after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid targeting Mexican migrants. A leisure trip to the nation’s capital looks like a war zone, complete with military tanks and armed soldiers. World leaders and tech moguls grovel at President Donald Trump’s feet, showering him with praise and gifts. Oh, and Satan has taken up residence in the White House.
This isn’t a play-by-play of the current news cycle in America, although it surely sounds like it. This is, in fact, the latest episode of “South Park,” once again scathingly calling out the Trump administration’s absurd antics in real time, and the show isn’t pulling any punches.
A crackdown on immigration and Trump’s sinister actions are just a few timely topics tackled in the third episode of Season 27 of “South Park,” which mostly satirized an overreliance on ChatGPT. The most glaring plot, though, involved the return of a beloved character, Towelie, heading to a militarized Washington, D.C., just as Trump has deployed hundreds of National Guard troops in real life to address the city’s “crime emergency” (despite the U.S. Attorney’s Office saying crime hit a 30-year low earlier this year).
