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FEMA official claims divine Waffle House teleportation, somehow keeps job

At this point, it’s just silly to ask whether any of this is disqualifying.

Jason Weisberger
Apr 03, 2026
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The man in charge of coordinating federal disaster response says he was once mysteriously transported by God to a Waffle House in Georgia. A claim that, incredibly, is not disqualifying in an administration that seems to treat basic reality as optional.

“The word ‘teleportation’ was not mine,” Mr. Phillips wrote. “It was used by someone else in the conve…

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