But on this Saturday in November, all he had to show for it was a former New York mayor, standing outside a garage, tilting at windmills.īy signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. Trump’s spurious, incoherent attempt to delegitimize the election would culminate, nearly two months later, in the January 6 insurrection. What factored into the decision is almost less interesting than its unfortunate timing, which happened to coincide with the Associated Press projection of Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania, which officially won him the presidency. In fact, the campaign “had always intended to hold the news conference in a friendlier part of town,” the Times reported, given that pro-Biden protesters had assembled downtown outside the Convention Center and drowned out the Trump allies who had tried to speak there. 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. In reality, the mistake was not in the booking, but in a garbled game of telephone. The New York Times attributed the Trump campaign’s curious venue choice to a mix-up: “We just kinda picked up the phone and said yes and cleared some stuff out and managed to make it happen.” We heard it might’ve been a mistake or something,” Mike Siravo, whose family owns Four Seasons Total Landscaping, told New York‘s Olivia Nuzzi. Months later, a documentary was in the works, scheduled to air this weekend on MSNBC to mark the one-year anniversary. Twitter turned the whole thing into a song. People made the outdoor garage setup their Zoom background. Only days after the press conference, a Philly comedian organized a “Fraud Street Run,” a nod to the city’s Broad Street Run, on a route from the landscaping firm to the actual Four Seasons hotel. Then a familiar media swarm followed, turning Four Seasons Total Landscaping into a worldwide sensation. There was the seemingly obvious name mix-up-instead of booking the Four Seasons hotel, Trump’s team ended up with a landscaping firm in northeast Philadelphia, down the street from an adult book store. The hastily arranged press conference, one year ago today, was a fitting end to Donald Trump’s not-so-excellent Washington adventure, epitomizing almost every bizarre attribute of Trump’s chaotic presidency. The city of Philadelphia has played host to many historic moments-the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the birth of Gritty-but few have been as memorable (or as weird) as that time Rudy Giuliani stood outside a landscaping company and railed about election fraud. What a sharp legal mind.Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The methods include eating the ballots to see if they’re actually tortillas, declaring “Opposite Day” in Georgia, and best of all, “We’re gonna demand I do the recount personally, and our silver bullet is I can’t count very high.” Giuliani. That’s a granite quarry in New Rochelle.” Zing! McKinnon’s Giuliani also lays out all the ways he’s going to combat “ballot fraud” to prove that Trump was the real victor of the election. Kate McKinnon stopped by the Weekend Update desk in her best Rudy Giuliani bald cap to harass Colin, and when Jost asks if holding a press conference at a landscaping company called “Four Seasons” was a mistake, he answers, “What? No! Anyway, glad I made it to the show on time, because first I went to 30 Rocks. This blunder was so funny on its own that it was a Saturday Night Live comedy freebie, and boy do they grab the ball and run with it. presidential election, the Trump team responded in the most Trumpian way ever: by booking Rudy Giuliani to give a conference at a landscaping store next to an adult bookstore and across from a crematorium, called “Four Seasons,” instead of booking an actual Four Seasons, and then claiming on Twitter that they meant to do that, actually, all after Trump tweeted about the wrong Four Seasons. On Saturday November 7, after Joe Biden won the 2020 U.S.
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