This never fails to bring a smile to my face. This really happened. And today is the second anniversary of the event. Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference - Wikipedia On November 7, 2020, four days after the United States presidential election, Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City and an attorney for then-president Donald Trump, hosted a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, a small business in the Holmesburg neighborhood of Near Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event was held at the company's garage door and parking lot to discuss the status of the Trump campaign's legal challenges to the ballot-counting process in the state, where the president's early election lead over Joe Biden had shifted to a shortfall as mailed-in ballots were counted for Philadelphia, historically a heavily Democratic city. The site of the press conference, a local landscaping business, was unexpected. Many journalists and others quickly observed a comical aspect to its location, near a sex shop and a crematorium. This site selection led to speculation that the Trump campaign meant to book the upscale Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia, five city blocks from the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where Philadelphia's ballots were being counted. Shortly after Giuliani began talking to the assembled reporters, the Associated Press projected Biden as the winner of the Pennsylvania vote and thus the nationwide election. Several news outlets characterized the event as the symbolic end of Trump's presidency.[2][3][4] The event was ridiculed by journalists and users of social media. It garnered further ridicule after it emerged that one of the witnesses who spoke at the event was a convicted sex offender.[5] It resulted in lawyers withdrawing from the legal team that the Trump campaign had assembled to challenge the election results. In response to the press conference, a Four Seasons-themed charity run was created, and the landscaping company capitalized on the newfound attention by selling T-shirts and other merchandise.
Its up there forever etched in the annals of American history: The Gettysburg Address, JFK’s “ask not what your country can do for you”, MLK’s “i have a dream”, Rudy “All the Networks!”.
Although the "press conference" was a joke and it made Rudy Giuliani look like an fool let's not forget that a majority of Republicans still believe the narrative that Rudy was promulgating at the Four Seasons i.e. that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump through massive fraud.
I don’t care what side of the political spectrum you fall on, this is the kind of thing that everyone should find hilarious. Except for the sex offender part of course.
