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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 07:42 PM Nov 2020

Trump Team Holds News Conference Outside Drab Landscaping Firm, Next to Adult Book Store

By DANIEL POLITI
NOV 07, 20206:30 PM



Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media at a press conference held in the back parking lot of a landscaping company on Saturday in Philadelphia. Chris McGrath/Getty Images

On Saturday morning, shortly before the AP and other news outlets called the election for Joe Biden, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to announce that his lawyers would be holding a “big press conference” in Philadelphia. But there seems to have been some major confusion about where it would be held. First Trump tweeted it would take place at the “Four Seasons, Philadelphia.” Trump later corrected himself and said that the news conference was going to be held at the Four Seasons Total Landscaping. And the Four Seasons Hotel sent out its own tweet, making sure everyone knew that the news conference would not be held there but rather at the landscaping business that has “no relation with the hotel.”






When journalists arrived at the site of the news conference, they were flabbergasted by the scene and many quickly speculated that someone in the Trump campaign made a serious mistake. After all, the parking lot of a landscaping business in the outskirts of the city in an industrial part of town was a drab backdrop for a news conference by a president who wanted to convince Americans he still had a chance of winning. And making matters even stranger, the landscaping business was between an adult bookstore and a cremation center. The location led to lots of mockery online, and many people were very happy with the scene that was ripe for mockery, and some saw as a poignant metaphor of the failure of the Trump campaign.

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/four-seasons-total-landscaping-trump-team-news-conference.html
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Trump Team Holds News Conference Outside Drab Landscaping Firm, Next to Adult Book Store (Original Post) Judi Lynn Nov 2020 OP
Add "House Of the Rising Sun" to the irony StClone Nov 2020 #1
Hahahahaha! Seriously? The Wielding Truth Nov 2020 #2
LOL! Nitram Nov 2020 #3
Trump's people can't do anything right. They can't even organize a press conference. No wonder Doodley Nov 2020 #4
Excellent posting, but referring to that bedbug as a "hotelier" disalitervisum Nov 2020 #5
It began on a gold escalator. It may have ended at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Judi Lynn Nov 2020 #6

StClone

(11,676 posts)
1. Add "House Of the Rising Sun" to the irony
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 07:54 PM
Nov 2020

The closing songs to the very last Trump Super Spreader rally included "House of the Rinsing Sun." A Song about a house of prostitution in New Orleans. Do the chimps running the Chumps reelection zoo have a wacky sense of irony or are they just dumb.

Doodley

(8,976 posts)
4. Trump's people can't do anything right. They can't even organize a press conference. No wonder
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 09:13 PM
Nov 2020

things like Covid, the environment, and foreign policy are over their head.

 

disalitervisum

(470 posts)
5. Excellent posting, but referring to that bedbug as a "hotelier"
Sun Nov 8, 2020, 10:42 PM
Nov 2020

is a bridge too far for me. Although I'm sure that a family of bedbugs can be found at his building code violation venues.

Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
6. It began on a gold escalator. It may have ended at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 12:06 AM
Nov 2020

It began on a gold escalator. It may have ended at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
by Bharadwaj November 8, 2020

Rudolph Giuliani, America’s mayor turned Trump’s sloppy fixer, squinted into the autumnal solar at journalists who had assembled outdoors 4 Seasons Whole Landscaping — a selection of location that a number of Trump staffers couldn’t account for, saying that it was the work of the marketing campaign’s Pennsylvania advance workforce. Actually wherever else would have conveyed extra legitimacy on the enterprise, however legitimacy didn’t appear a excessive precedence for one of many final battles of a misplaced warfare.

“Joe Frazier continues to be voting right here — kinda onerous, since he died 5 years in the past,” Giuliani stated in a meandering monologue, referring to the champion boxer for instance of Philadelphia’s unproven election malfeasance. “However Joe continues to vote. If I recall accurately, Joe was a Republican. So perhaps I shouldn’t complain. However we must always go see if Joe is voting Republican or Democrat now, from the grave. Additionally Will Smith’s father has voted right here twice since he died. I dunno how he votes as a result of his vote is secret. In Philadelphia, they preserve the votes of lifeless folks secret.”

As Joe Biden marched slowly to victory final week, the Trump Prepare jackknifed. It raged about suspicious Sharpies in Arizona, about “irregularities” and “anomalies” in Georgia, about weaponized pizza boxes used to obscure democracy in Michigan, about “mathematical impossibilities” in Wisconsin, about ghosts in Philadelphia. What turned clear is that Trump supporters thought Democratic votes, Democratic strongholds and Democratic strategies had been suspicious. Cities had been suspicious. The turnout was suspicious. The mail was suspicious.

In actuality, a preponderance of mailed-in ballots — which had been counted final, in lots of locations — had slowed the method and delayed the inevitability of Biden’s win. Ballot employees had been simply making an attempt to do their civic obligation — extracting, flattening, scanning and counting ballots into the night time — however this was not ok for the president’s supporters. They confirmed up with directions tailor-made to no matter means the tide was shifting.

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https://washingtonsources.org/lifestyle/it-began-on-a-gold-escalator-it-may-have-ended-at-four-seasons-total-landscaping/79105/

(Posted in the Washington Post)


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