In the wake of CNN's bizarre report that President Donald Trump's Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster chief Gregg Phillips has claimed that he was "teleported" to a Waffle House 50 miles away, Phillips doubled down, proclaiming "haters gonna hate" in a post to Truth Social.
The new comments were flagged by Andrew Kaczynski of CNN's KFILE.
“I have no regrets for my words nor my faith in my Savior, Jesus Christ,” wrote Phillips. “The Bible has many examples of the power of God.” He also claimed his words were taken "out of context," and in another post structured like a poem, stated, “I know what I’ve experienced,” and compared himself to Jesus Christ being resurrected from the dead.
In addition to the Waffle House claim, Phillips said that at one point while he was driving, his vehicle was "lifted up" by supernatural forces and transported to a nearby church.
Phillips had already been a controversial choice to head up disaster management at FEMA, as he has no relevant experience and was a major election conspiracy theorist who featured prominently in far-right filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza's discredited documentary "2,000 Mules," which, through easily debunked arguments about cell phone data, argued states won by former President Joe Biden in 2020 were manipulated by an illegal ballot harvesting scheme.
He also has a history of unruly behavior, getting ejected from a gathering of other conspiracy theorists for violating their hotel's firearms policy.
CNN has also noted that Phillips "had a history of violent rhetoric towards public officials. He said in a podcast last year that he’d like to punch 'that b-----' in the mouth, referring to former President Joe Biden who had just left office, before adding, 'He deserves to die.' In another podcast, Phillips said that migrants were coming to kill Americans while warning people to be armed."
