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      Yet absolutely hilarious.

      I’ll remind everyone that these people who literally can’t organize a press conference, want to rule a country.

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        They actually did a brilliant job of organizing a press conference. In front of a landscaping business, in order to cover for the fact that their idiot leader said the press conference would be at “the Four Seasons,” clearly referring to the Four Seasons Hotel, when no such press conference was scheduled, and when (apparently) the Four Seasons Hotel said “No fucking way.”

        The extent to which these people will go to cover for Trump’s blunders is mind-boggling.

        Edit: The fact that they did this in front of a landscaper strongly suggests that they couldn’t get any actual conference space to host them. For the campaign of a sitting president.

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          From the NYTimes Nov. 7th 2020:

          In reality, the mistake was not in the booking, but in a garbled game of telephone. 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.

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            Also, from the Wikipedia article linked in this post:

            It was later revealed that an hour before the event was first announced, a Trump staffer had called the former director of sales at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Sean Middleton, to ask if the company would be willing to host a news conference.

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              So they actually for reals did that on purpose? I don’t know if that’s more or less funny than the alternative.

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                I don’t think they did. I think that Trump just “decided” that they would have a press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel, with the expectation that they’d just be welcomed in at short notice, and nobody wanted to tell him otherwise (or he wouldn’t listen, toMAYto, toMAHto).

                Then, a mere hour before Trump tweeted it out, someone from his staff had called Four Seasons Total Landscaping and actually managed to get them to agree to the event.

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        honestly one of the most “the truth laid bare” in terms of the brain power of this group of fucks

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    As much as I wanted to be in a coma during the Trump years, I will be eternally grateful that I was able to witness this act of unfathomable dumbness.

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    What I’ll never understand about this, is that after they realized they booked a fucking landscaping company, why they didn’t just immediately move the whole thing to the nearest public park or something. Why actually set the press conference up?! I get he was trying to cover his incompetence, but just…goddamn

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      Trump said it would be at “the Four Seasons” but didn’t reserve shit. The hotel said, lol, no it won’t be.

      Walking it back and changing to a new venue would make him look incompetent and weak, as though he didn’t plan ahead and like he lacks the authority and power to compel the booking at the hotel. So, some greasy sycophant snorted out a new idea, which is to find another business in the city with the name “Four Seasons” so they can spin it as a 9D chess move.

      their hope was that instead of seeing “wow he didn’t plan his speech”, people would see “aha! we merely didn’t understand his plan!” - and instead of “wow he doesn’t command enough respect to make a hotel bow”, his fans would see “haha! he dunked on the hotel! they thought he meant them because they think they’re hot shit, but really our boy outwitted those execs and supported a local blue collar business!”

      Trump naturally loved this because it saved his ego. and here we are.

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        Kinda like the sharpy hurricane: he’d rather do something that makes him look stupid and petty, than admit to having been wrong about something. Combine a very fragile ego with stupidity and you end up with antics like this.

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    It truly was amazing. At that time, I lived on 19th street in Philadelphia. The four seasons hotel is also on 19th. When I heard that there was a press conference scheduled for the four seasons, I called a friend of mine who was working there and asked him about it. He said “we’ve been getting a lot of calls, but nothing is scheduled to be here”.

    I hung up and was glued to the news, trying to figure out what was going on.

    When they went live from four seasons total landscaping, I felt like the whole planet tilted to its side. I had lost my balance watching this unfold on the tv.

    I regret not going down there.

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    The headline made me think that Harris was doing a press conference there with some actual meaning to the location to mock the incompetence of the prior event.

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    It would be great if candidates made it a tradition to go there and do like a fun, upbeat, joke based speech there.

    Lighten the mood.