--- --- # Sarah Palin Cancels Trump Event After Husband's Snow Machine Accident  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Mar 14, 2016 5:01 PM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Mar 14, 2016 5:01 PM UTC [Sarah Palin](https://twitter.com/sarahpalinusa) canceled a campaign event for [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4257804/donald-trump-rally-violence-denial/) Monday after her husband was injured in a snow machine accident. “Todd Palin was in a bad snow machine accident last night and is currently hospitalized,” the Trump campaign said in a statement after they announced the cancellation of Palin’s event in Florida. “Governor Palin is returning to Alaska to be with her husband and looks forward to being back on the campaign trial soon. Mr Trump’s thoughts and prayers are with the Palin family at this time.” Palin [endorsed Trump](http://time.com/4185689/donald-trump-sarah-palin-endorse-2016-election/) in January, saying at the time, “He is beholden to nobody but we the people, how refreshing.” Sarah Palin Cancels Trump Event After Husband's Accident ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4257906/sarah-palin-husband-snow-machine-accident-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4257906/sarah-palin-husband-snow-machine-accident-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Sarah Palin Cancels Trump Event After Husband's Snow Machine Accident","datePublished":"2016-03-14T17:01:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:53:05.495Z","description":"Todd Palin is in the hospital","url":"https://time.com/4257906/sarah-palin-husband-snow-machine-accident-donald-trump/","keywords":["Sarah Palin","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/sarah-palin/","name":"Sarah Palin"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4257906/sarah-palin-husband-snow-machine-accident-donald-trump/","name":"Sarah Palin Cancels Trump Event After Husband's Snow Machine Accident"}}]}] ```