US Election 2020: Trump laywer Rudy Giuliani’s Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference mistake goes viral

Donald Trump’s campaign team was roasted online after they mistakenly booked this scene for a press conference instead of a five-star hotel.

A weekend press conference by Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani went viral for all the wrong reasons.

Before media outlets had called the election for Joe Biden, President Donald Trump tweeted: “Lawyers Press Conference at Four Seasons, Philadelphia.”

Most assumed the president was referring to the Four Seasons Hotel, but he quickly deleted that tweet and issued a new tweet saying: “Four Season’s Landscaping.”

To clarify, President Trump’s press conference will NOT be held at Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia.
It will be held at Four Seasons Total Landscaping— no relation with the hotel.

— Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia at Comcast Center (@FSPhiladelphia) November 7, 2020

Mr Trump quickly deleted that tweet as well and then issued a new tweet saying: “Big press conference today in Philadelphia at Four Seasons Total Landscaping – 11.30am!”

Four Seasons Total Landscaping is a small business situated between a crematorium and an adult book store called Fantasy Island.

The landscaping business seemed like a bizarre place to hold a press conference and almost immediately people started speculating on Twitter that perhaps Mr Trump’s campaign team had accidentally booked the wrong Four Seasons.

I could write jokes for 800 years and I'd never think of something funnier than Trump booking the Four Seasons for his big presser, and it turning out to be the Four Seasons Total Landscaping parking lot between a dildo store and a crematorium. pic.twitter.com/P45HV1daD9

— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) November 8, 2020

He promised to run the country like he ran his business. It ended with Rudy Giuliani outside Four Season Total Landscaping next to a dildo shop, after a staffer mistakenly thought the empty parking lot was a Four Seasons hotel. pic.twitter.com/hOKcyWopqi

— Morten Øverbye (@morten) November 7, 2020

I want to know who it was at the Four Seasons Landscaping that

—answered the phone
—heard that the Trump campaign wanted to hold a press conference in his parking lot
—realized they had mistaken him for a hotel
—Looked at an invisible documentary camera
—said, “Absolutely.” pic.twitter.com/59kkvWfD4V

— Josiah Hawthorne (@JosiahHawthorne) November 7, 2020

In case you missed it, the Trump campaign called a press conference this morning in the parking lot of "Four Seasons Total Landscaping" in Philadelphia. The assumption is that they meant to book the Four Seasons hotel but made a mistake and just went with it. Seriously. https://t.co/K0w7wqoUs1

— BILL OAKLEY (@thatbilloakley) November 7, 2020

I’m sorry I can’t let this go: the people who can’t find the right Four Seasons want you to believe they uncovered 40,000 fraudulent ballots in Philadelphia?

— Jeffrey Lieber (@JeffLieber) November 8, 2020

Four Seasons Total Landscaping is one of those things I’ll just randomly think of and laugh at for the rest of my life

— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) November 8, 2020

Whomever at Four Seasons Landscaping who took the call about a press conference, having never once hosted a live event/press conference, and said "Sure we can make that happen!" is a goddamned American Hero and the pinnacle of opportunity capitalism.

— Brock Wilbur (@brockwilbur) November 8, 2020

It is 2:43am and I am laying in bed, laughing out loud — cackling, crying even — thinking about Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

We are so lucky to have this...thing...for the rest of our lives. I know I will draw on it in times of need.

— Chris Kelly (@imchriskelly) November 8, 2020

I will pay a $44.95 one-time fee to read 8,000 deeply reported words on the Four Seasons Total Landscaping story. If the Philly Enquirer does it I’ll take out a one-year subscription. I will support whatever business model that produces this story.

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) November 8, 2020

After the embarrassment of mistakenly holding a press conference in the car park of Four Seasons landscaping, between a dildo shop and a crematorium, the Trump campaign team are spending the day at a luxury spa. pic.twitter.com/gyeScK06EF

— Mrs Nigel Farage (@MrsNigel) November 8, 2020

“ARE YOU FROM FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING?” pic.twitter.com/ydS4cEZnSY

— J Farrers (@Jfarrers) November 7, 2020

I’m sorry I can’t stop laughing about the four seasons landscaping snafu. This is like promising your fiancée a trip to Jamaica and then realizing you booked a hotel in Queens.

— whatever happened to baby jeff? (@jheimbrock) November 8, 2020

Four Seasons Total Landscaping is also my secret code name for a bikini wax.

— Emmy Rossum (@emmyrossum) November 7, 2020

According to the New York Times, Mr Trump’s team did always intend to hold the press conference at the landscaping business, but the president got a bit confused.

“In reality, the mistake was not in the booking, but in a garbled game of telephone,” the New York Times wrote.

“Mr. Giuliani and the Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski told the president on Saturday morning their intended location for the news conference and he misunderstood, assuming it was an upscale hotel, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.”

Apparently they chose the landscaping business because it was in a more Republican friendly part of town.

PBS Senior Political Reporter Daniel Bush added a bit more info, tweeting: “An answer to the Four Seasons Total Landscaping mystery: the company told me the Trump campaign contacted them today out of the blue ahead of the Giuliani presser and said their location was close to an exit on I95, and was secure, and that’s why they wanted to use it.”

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

WHAT HAPPENED AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE

It was at the press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping that Rudy Giuliani was told by reporters that media networks had called the election for Joe Biden.

“Don’t be ridiculous,” Mr Giuliani responded.

“Networks don’t get to decide elections. Courts do. Courts set aside elections when they are illegal.”

Mr Giuliani also claimed that Philadelphia “has a sad history of voter fraud,” claiming dead people submitted ballots.

“There certainly is enough evidence to disqualify a certain number of ballots,” he said.

At around the same time as the press conference, Mr Trump issued a statement rejecting that Mr Biden had won the election.

“The simple fact is this election is far from over,” the president said in a statement. “Legal votes decide who is president, not the news media.”