FEMA fires official who claimed God teleported him to a Waffle House
If you had "high-ranking disaster response official claims divine diner teleportation" on your bingo card, go grab your prize.
Gregg Phillips was running the FEMA office in charge of actual disaster response—managing a $300 million budget and over a thousand employees. But the DHS finally had to show him the door after his social media posts went a bit too sci-fi.
Essentially, Phillips hopped onto Truth Social to double down on a claim that he was once miraculously teleported to a Waffle House. He later clarified that "teleportation" was someone else's word, preferring biblical terms like "translated" or "transported" by God, which apparently happened while he was heavily medicated during cancer treatment.
Before this, he was mostly known for pushing election conspiracy theories. But apparently, claiming God bypassed physical space to drop you off for some scattered, smothered, and covered hashbrowns was the final straw for the feds.
Honestly, if any establishment is worthy of interdimensional divine travel, it is absolutely a 24-hour Waffle House.
Source: The New York Times
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