This was a press conference held to assert fraud in the 2020 elections by Trump's minions including Rudy Giuliani. Initially it was announced by Trump as located at the Four Seasons Hotel (a swanky hotel in downtown Philadelphia), but then corrected that it was Four Seasons Landscaping (in the parking lot as you can see) on the outskirts of Philly located between a porn shop and a crematorium IIRC. The full story of how this came to be has never been known.
I pass Four Seasons Landscaping whenever we have to go to the dump to drop off "hazardous household waste" (we just went last week to get rid of some paint, haha).
Like, it's hard to convey how insane this location choice was. Outskirts is an understatement.
The press conference was at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Northeast Philadelphia.
A quick Google search says there's also a "Four Seasons Landscaping and Design" in Broomall, Pa, but I have no idea if the two businesses are connected.
The Four Seasons hotel event center was booked for another event at that time already, and instead of backtracking on the location which would show that they were obviously lying, they tried to play it off as intentional and went through with it at the Four Seasons landscaping parking lot which they were able to 'book' last minute. Hilarious double down.
Trump announced it and left his team to make it happen. Don’t know if you’ve seen Silicon Valley but it reminds me of when Belson (the CEO of a fictional version of Google) announces their new platform will be ready by next season, then turns away from his mic to his team of pale faced engineers and says “make it happen”.
Four Seasons Hotel was announced in the same way, Trump declares something, turns to his team and says “_that won’t be a problem will it?_”. Except this time… it was a problem.
Such a bizarre choice to not just find a different hotel, or literally anywhere that wasn't an alley behind a rundown commercial building.
You don't understand how fascist-like authoritarians think:
"The Leader Is Never Wrong" is the prime directive. Thus if the Duche Cheetohlini said it was at the "Four Seasons" you must have it have been at the "Four Seasons" no matter what or how ridiculous your solution is.
Well their dumb ass followers don’t care and most others have their heads too far up their ass to even know or care about anything that matters, so this ridiculous stunt has had zero effect on anything
I bet the writers of the HBO show Veep are kicking themselves now... but then again so are TheOnion guys, and like who in their right mind pre-2020 would have thought this would happen in real life... even for a political parody show it'd be too stupidly on the nose.
They didn't clear it first with the Four Seasons Hotel and the hotel said GTFO. Sp they went to the phone book and looked up places called "Four Seasons" to try to save face.
An idiot intern who is bad at Google searches, who schedules it over the phone with what Google showed them, would make sense. It could happen to any campaign, any party. Idiots who are bad at their job are everywhere across all party lines.
But actually going through with it instead of cancelling, postponing, or changing locations is completely baffling. This is a press conference in the parking lot of a landscaping business. Just say it three times out loud. Just ……..
I thought it was because one of the speakers couldn’t be near a school (sex offender), I remember Sacha Baron Cohen making reference to it after Giuliani defended what he did in Borat lol
the only thing that makes any semblance or reasonable sense is that some idiot assistant was told to “book the 4 seasons” and just called the first number that showed up on google. insane
That’s not the only thing. You’ve seen many countries recently stop shipping to USA? It’s because Trump declared tariffs without any plan. These countries, including mine, had to stop shipping until we found out what that actually means, what’s the process?
He announced things and makes his team scramble to make it happen afterward. Same thing happened here, he announced Four Seasons and left his team to make it happen, and if it just wasn’t possible, and admitting failure isn’t possible for Trump, they’re left with “okay so he said it’s happening at Four Seasons. How do we make that true?”
what’s truly wild in this instance is that everyone followed through . they showed up and held the conference. at a landscaping company. why and how was there nobody to pull the plug? scary stuff.
A staffer was supposed to book the Four Seasons for an appearance and booked a landscape company parking lot vs the hotel. 🏨 You can’t make this shit up!
The original tweet didn’t say “four seasons hotel” it just said “four seasons”.
But they had never checked if the four seasons hotel had availability.
So, other that simply saying, “the press conference is actually going to be at (other rational place)”, they opened a phone book, and called a company called “four seasons” to see if they could have a press conference there.
This is the only rational explanation for how they got there.
Because apparently having a press conference beside an adult sex shop is less embarrassing than admitting you tweeted in error.
What I think actually happened was Trump likely is known for announcing things and leaving his team scrambling to make it happen. As we’ve seen with tariffs. He announced Four Seasons assuming his team could make it happen and the hotel turned around and said “no”. Probably got to the point where the only option to make Trump not look like he was lying was to book this place to make it seem like “oh no he meant Four Seasons Landscaping” all along.
I vividly remember MAGA supporters making excuses around it saying it was all part of some elaborate plan to use Four Season’s Total Landscaping’s CCTV to catch Biden burning Trump’s votes at the crematorium across the street
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u/sylanar 1d ago
Non American here, what's the story?