Men's Lifestyle April 14, 2026 0 Comments

FEMA’s Gregg Phillips Just Dropped Shocking New Claims That Could Change Everything You Thought You Knew—Here’s the Real Story

Ever wonder what it looks like when a top FEMA official claims he’s been teleported to a Waffle House? Yeah, me neither—until I stumbled upon Gregg Phillips’ story, and let me tell you, it’s a wild ride. From ghostly traffic rescues by a deceased girlfriend to late-night chats with Satan in Spain, his adventures sound like the plot of a supernatural sitcom. But here’s the kicker: Phillips’ out-there tales started swirling amid his battle with metastatic bone cancer and some pretty unorthodox treatment choices. As we brace for a brutal season of natural disasters, the idea of him steering emergency management sends chills down my spine—and maybe not the good kind. How does someone juggling cosmic encounters and conspiracy theories end up in such a critical role? And what happens when his fantastical narratives clash with the highest echelons of power? Buckle up, because this saga blends the bizarre, the serious, and the outright surreal in a way you won’t believe. LEARN MORE

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We have been keeping a weather eye on Gregg Phillips, a top-ranked official of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, who claims he once found himself teleported to a Waffle House. (One hopes the authorities, or perhaps Starfleet Command, are watching him too.) CNN’s redoubtable K-File reports that this is not the only time that Phillips found himself in touch with Forces Beyond.

A dead girlfriend once lifted his car off the road to avoid a crash. Satan once spoke to him while he walked across Spain. After collapsing inside an Indianapolis Lowe’s, he came to in a McDonald’s parking lot across the street with 15,000 steps logged on his health app, a Big Mac in his lap, and little understanding of what had just happened. In telling these stories across various right-wing podcasts, Phillips has said many of the experiences occurred while he was in and out of treatment for metastatic bone cancer. Rather than undergo chemotherapy, Phillips says he chose instead to rely on a self-directed regimen of ivermectin and fenbendazole, antiparasitic drugs commonly used to deworm animals.

I feel for this guy. Honestly, I do. If he truly has cancer, and if he found himself falling into the MAHA rabbit hole, I wish him well—and a real doctor. But, man, we can’t have this guy helping run whatever’s left of FEMA as we come into heat wave, tornado, hurricane, wildfire, and flood seasons.

In a brief interview with CNN on his cellphone Thursday morning about Phillips, President Donald Trump said, “What does teleport mean? Was he kidding?” Told that Phillips was not kidding, Trump responded: “I don’t know anything about teleporting. … It just sounds a little strange, but I know nothing about teleporting or him, but I’ll find out about it right now.” After CNN first reported on Phillips’ teleportation claims, the White House contacted the Department of Homeland Security—FEMA’s parent agency—urging officials either to remove Phillips or keep him out of public view, a White House official told CNN.

That sounds ominous. It really sounded ominous to Phillips.

Within days of CNN’s report, Phillips was pulled from a scheduled Capitol Hill hearing. He has since been quietly sidelined from parts of FEMA’s operations, according to multiple agency sources. He was also directed to stop posting about teleportation on Truth Social, a source familiar told CNN. Several sources said Phillips was furious—and is now convinced that Trump officials at FEMA and DHS were angling against him. Since then, he has grown increasingly agitated and suspicious, multiple FEMA insiders who work with Phillips told CNN.

Then, of course, other people looked at Phillips and decided to exploit his fantasies for their own personal advantage.

CNN saved copies of episodes from the past several years of the “Onward” podcast co-hosted by Catherine Engelbrecht, a conservative activist who frequently collaborates with Phillips in promoting false and unproven claims of widespread voter fraud. The episodes, including where Phillips made his teleportation comments, appear to have been removed from public platforms following CNN’s initial reporting.

Oh, Lord, Engelbrecht has been a public nuisance going back to Trump I. She was at the heart of the spurious claims of harassment by the IRS because various wing-nut outfits were playing fast and loose with their nonprofit status. She and Phillips have done business together for years. They put together a ruse about a Ukrainian hospital that didn’t exist. They also were jailed for contempt of court when they refused to identify a “confidential FBI informant” who informed them about irregularities in the voting software provided by a company called Konnech, whose CEO, Eugene Yu, ultimately sued the two of them for defamation.

This was an amazingly twisted saga. Yu was arrested on suspicion of theft of identifying information. From the Texas Tribune:

The Los Angeles district attorney’s office said Yu and Konnech violated the company’s contract with Los Angeles County by illegally giving contractors in China access to data that was supposed to be stored only in the United States. Yu has filed a motion to dismiss the charges, arguing that even if the charges are true, they aren’t criminal. Los Angeles prosecutors have acknowledged receiving an early tip from Phillips.

Not only did Yu get the charges dismissed, he successfully sued the L.A. County DA for $5 million. Wowser.

Anyway…

On the same January 2025 podcast where he mentioned teleportation, Phillips described a near-crash in the desert in which he said a deceased girlfriend appeared inside his moving car and lifted it off the road to avoid an oncoming truck. Phillips said he was driving a car he had recently won in a poker game. “The girl that I had dated came into the car with me, the girl that had died,” Phillips said. “She said ‘You’re not going to survive this. So I’m going to take you away.’ And she lifted me and the car up and out of the way from a truck that had slid across the road and had come all the way across the road and was about to hit me.”

I wish his dead girlfriend could come back and save us from the train wreck that is this political era.