Trump’s Disaster Response Chief Believes He Was Teleported to a Waffle House

The Daily Beast via Yahoo ^ | March 20th, 2026 | Isabel van Brugen

[Mariner]

President Donald Trump’s top official overseeing disaster response insists he was once teleported to a Georgia Waffle House.

Gregg Phillips, appointed in December to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Office of Response and Recovery, made the claim during a January 2025 episode of the podcast Onward, CNN reported on Friday in a deep-dive profile of the top official.

“Teleporting is no fun,” Phillips said on the podcast, co-hosted by conservative activist Catherine Engelbrecht. “It was real.”

Phillips, a longtime conservative activist who repeatedly shared conspiracy theories on social media before being appointed to a top FEMA position, described an incident in which he said he teleported miles across Georgia.

“I was with my boys one time, and I was telling them I was gonna go to Waffle House and get Waffle House,” he said. “And I ended up at a Waffle House – this was in Georgia, and I end up at a Waffle House like 50 miles away from where I was.”

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Hey!

In his defense, the words”Waffle House” give this story a high degree of credibility!

[catnipman]

personally, i think the dude was probably just blackouted drunk ...

[BlackVeil]

Lol. I am so much enjoying this thread.

[oldtech]

Does Waffle House have any record of using hallucinatory substances? As far as I know, teleporting is relegated to Star Trek episodes.

[MikelTackNailer]

I hate that nausea-like "wing wang" effect that goes on for a half hour or so.

You materialize in Waffle House and can't even eat!

[Darksheare]

If there were fights, he was teleported to a waffle house.

[Jeff Chandler]

And here I thought I was the only one.

[TonyM]

What was he smoking that gave him the munchies so bad that he was able to teleport so far just to feed his powerful jonesing for waffles.

[Nachoman]

Here I was, expecting to read an article from the Bee.

[lastchance]

Yeah, but that happens to pretty much everybody at some point or another.

[epluribus_2]

well, close... its DB citing a CNN story.

the Bee mimus the humor.

[iontheball]

Thanks for adding truth to the thread.
_________________________
We are dealing with a Yahoo article after all.

[mad_as_he$$]

Of note.

[BamaBelle]

Not sure what’s going on here. Will wait for Gregg to explain further. I follow him on Truth Social. He is a strong Christian and seems to be a great guy. I will reserve judgment until he posts more about this.

[AppyPappy]

If this was an Obama or Biden appointee, Yahoo would not have written this story

[cyclotic]

Do any of you guys know who Gregg Phillips actually is?

He’s the one who used cell phone tracking to prove election fraud in the 2020 stolen election. He, along with Catherine Englebright are responsible for bringing election integrity to the forefront. He’s not some random nutcase stealing women’s luggage at the airport.

He also survived very serious cancer. I followed him on Truth Social and he had said his goodbye’s a couple times. It’s amazing that he survived. Guessing the teleporting thing was some sort of hallucination from the cancer drugs.

There are several articles online and they are all from leftist sources and probably from the same origin. twisted and spun to ridicule

[trebb]

I tried to get teleported to a Waffle House once - ended up in an IHOP - the crepes were good.

[newfreep]

“The floors are sticky for your safety”.

LOL...100% true!

[dvan34]

Hummmmmm! So how did he get back?

[suthener]

I, too, have been transported to Waffle House. One minute I was in a bar and the next memory I have was being at the Waffle House. My next memory was waking up with a major headache. It happens.