{"id":70232,"date":"2026-03-27T19:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/white-house-slams-trash-reporting-over-claims-ice-chief-hospitalized-for-stress-yelled-at-by-trump-admin\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:57:43","slug":"white-house-slams-trash-reporting-over-claims-ice-chief-hospitalized-for-stress-yelled-at-by-trump-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/white-house-slams-trash-reporting-over-claims-ice-chief-hospitalized-for-stress-yelled-at-by-trump-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"White House slams \u2018trash reporting\u2019 over claims ICE chief hospitalized for stress, yelled at by Trump admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House pushed back hard Friday against a news report that Todd Lyons, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), had been hospitalized at least twice for stress-related issues with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump administration<\/a> that left him visibly upset and strained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pushback came after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/03\/27\/todd-lyons-ice-stress-hospital-00848458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Politico report<\/a> said Lyons was hospitalized at least twice while carrying out President Donald Trump&#8217;s immigration agenda.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The stress has left Lyons unable to carry out key decisions, the report states, citing two current and two former administration officials who were unnamed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ice-assaults-spike-over-1300-dems-draw-hard-red-line-unmask-agents-dhs-battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>ICE ASSAULTS SPIKE 1,500% AS DEMS DRAW \u2018HARD RED LINE\u2019 TO UNMASK AGENTS IN DHS BATTLE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He would be visibly upset and struggling to make the decisions that were needed to be made by the director,&#8221; one former unnamed official told the news website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trash reporting from a trash &#8220;reporter&#8221; pushing tabloid b&#8212;&#8212;- in an attempt to divide and distract. Todd Lyons is an American Patriot,&#8221; the White House Rapid Response X account said in response to the story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The episodes were attributed to pressure from above for Lyons to ramp <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">up deportations<\/a> and from top advisor Stephen Miller, who allegedly yelled at Lyons during morning phone calls with administration officials, Politico reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is b&#8212;&#8212;- and more of the trash that Daniel Lippman has peddled over the years in the name of clicks and clout,&#8221; Miller&#8217;s wife, Katie Miller, wrote on X in response to the Politico reporter&#8217;s story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said Politico was given &#8220;on record&#8221; denials prior to the story being published.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-blasts-top-house-democrat-buffoon-after-jeffries-brands-stephen-miller-hateful-bigot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>WHITE HOUSE BLASTS TOP HOUSE DEMOCRAT AS A &#8216;BUFFOON&#8217; AFTER JEFFRIES BRANDS STEPHEN MILLER A &#8216;HATEFUL BIGOT&#8217;<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shame on Politico for publishing such inaccurate trash,&#8221; Jackson wrote on X. &#8220;Todd Lyons is an American patriot who has worked tirelessly to undo Biden&#8217;s disastrous immigration policies that wreaked havoc on American communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the American people are deeply appreciative for his hard work making our country safer. Despite multiple on record denials and sources refuting their pathetic &#8216;reporting&#8217; and *still* ran with this absurd article.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The reported hospitalizations took place over several months. In one incident, Lyons was driven to a hospital by his security detail, and he was admitted overnight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In September, Lyons became distressed that ICE agents were unable to locate an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/immigration\/illegal-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">illegal immigrant<\/a> in Los \u00c1ngeles during a ride-along with top administration officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of his bodyguards took a portable defibrillator from a nearby government office to Lyons in case he needed medical intervention, the report said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After heated calls with Miller, Lyons expressed frustration that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/executive\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House<\/a> was often mad at his agency, according to the current official and former official who heard such comments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Todd, Stephen and the entire White House team have a great working relationship and coordinate closely to deliver on the president\u2019s many promises,&#8221; White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Todd Lyons is an American patriot who has worked tirelessly to undo Biden\u2019s disastrous immigration policies that wreaked havoc on American communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital has reached out to ICE and Politico.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House pushed back hard Friday against a news report that Todd Lyons, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), had been hospitalized at least twice for stress-related issues with the Trump administration that left him visibly upset and strained.\u00a0 The pushback came after a Politico report said Lyons was hospitalized &#8230; <a title=\"White House slams \u2018trash reporting\u2019 over claims ICE chief hospitalized for stress, yelled at by Trump admin\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/white-house-slams-trash-reporting-over-claims-ice-chief-hospitalized-for-stress-yelled-at-by-trump-admin\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about White House slams \u2018trash reporting\u2019 over claims ICE chief hospitalized for stress, yelled at by Trump admin\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}