{"id":18459,"date":"2026-01-31T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-backs-noem-amid-criticism-resignation-calls\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:22:11","slug":"trump-backs-noem-amid-criticism-resignation-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-backs-noem-amid-criticism-resignation-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump backs Noem amid criticism, resignation calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Friday defended his embattled Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem as she faces calls to resign, suggesting she&#8217;s been targeted by critics &#8220;because she is a woman, and has done a really GREAT JOB!&#8221; &#8220;The Radical Left Lunatics, Insurrectionists, Agitators, and Thugs&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5716159-trump-backs-noem-homeland-security\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Friday defended his embattled Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem as she faces calls to resign, suggesting she&#8217;s been targeted by critics &#8220;because she is a woman, and has done a really GREAT JOB!&#8221; &#8220;The Radical Left Lunatics, Insurrectionists, Agitators, and Thugs&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}