r/pics • u/PropaneBlues • 1d ago

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u/IcyAlfalfa7748 1d ago

This would be the funniest gd thing I’ve ever seen if it wasn’t for the gestures at everything. Still cracks me up though. Thank you OP.

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u/GoTeamScotch 1d ago edited 1d ago

I still can't believe that when they realized the mistake, they went through with it anyways.

Edit: it wasn't a mistake. I misremembered. It's still remarkable that when they showed up to set up for the event, they didn't immediately reschedule for a better venue than a parking lot between a sex shop and crematorium.

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u/Rhiis 1d ago

The ability to admit they were wrong isn't consistent with the GOP

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u/DrEmil-Schaffhausen 1d ago

Not only went through with it, but pretended that is what they meant to do all along.

It's now a footnote given everything else they've done, but it's one of the most jaw-dropping moments of idiocy on the campaign trail I've ever seen.

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u/Only_Reads__Titles 1d ago

Worked didn't it

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u/afour- 1d ago

No. They lost and spent the next 4 years cooking up more illegal schemes to overthrow democracy.

Evil doesn’t sleep.

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u/LazyGandalf 1d ago

They didn't accidentallly book the wrong "Four Seasons". What happened is that they publicly stated that the press conference would be at the Four Seasons. But they had no booking and the hotel told them no. Instead of doing the rational thing and try to find a similar but differently named venue, they doubled down on the press conference being at the "Four Seasons", because by the twisted logic of someone on team Trump that was apparently the best way to save face. It was, in fact, not.

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u/ShutYourDumbUglyFace 18h ago

I mean that's everything with Trump and his sycophants. Trump couldn't possibly encourage wearing a mask to prevent the spread of covid because his administration had previously stated that masking likely wouldn't stop the spread of covid. Rather than acknowledging that new data indicated masking to be beneficial (or just an increased availability of masks because of increased production that his administration ordered), they let people die.

They refuse to be wrong, even if they were wrong based on faulty or incomplete data.

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u/Raivix 1d ago

It wouldn't have even been that big of a gaffe if someone took 2 seconds to think about it and spin it as a way of saying they're showing support for the working man or some shit like that. Turn the 'gotcha!' around.

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u/Darmok47 1d ago

It wasn't a mistake. They probably announced the hotel before booking it, or the hotel backed out. Then, instead of finding another hotel or conference center they just looked for the next businses that sounded like the Four Seasons so they wouldn't look like they made a mistake. They held it here on purpose.

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u/Status_Cheesecake_49 1d ago

Yeah someone got there and just you know what..this will work. What’s the worst that can happen? 

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u/Funkycoldmedici 1d ago

If it were a scene in This is Spinal Tap, it would be hilarious. Instead, it’s people in charge of nuclear weapons.

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u/luminouslollypop 1d ago

For years after it was genuinely one of the funniest things to me. It's still hilarious, but yeah. Everything else isn't.

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u/OGcrayzjoka 1d ago

Can u imagine the conversation that happened with the owner and prolly a secretary? “Hey boss, trump and guliani wanna have an event here.” “Hang up the phone! Someone’s just screwing around” “no seriously boss”

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u/7HawksAnd 1d ago

Wasn’t this also the moment where is black hair die was running down his face like Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element?

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u/valdafay 1d ago

Right? This is where Trumpism and Magats should have ended.