Overview
- Trump, asked by CNN on Tuesday, said he knew nothing about teleporting, asked if Gregg Phillips was kidding, and said he would find out.
- Following March reporting on Phillips’s podcast accounts, officials pulled him from a planned House appearance, told him to stop posting about teleportation on Truth Social, and left him off a recent North Carolina trip with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
- Phillips remains FEMA’s associate administrator for the Office of Response and Recovery, a top role that oversees search and rescue operations, critical infrastructure restoration, and large federal disaster aid.
- Reporters who checked the Rome, Georgia restaurant said Waffle House staff did not recall seeing him, while Phillips says the episodes happened during self-directed cancer treatment with ivermectin and fenbendazole.
- FEMA called the coverage “so silly it’s barely worth acknowledging,” yet the scrutiny raises questions about leadership judgment and could draw more oversight, especially as the agency informally watches storm impact using a “Waffle House Index.”