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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From the NYTimes Nov. 7th 2020:
Also, from the Wikipedia article linked in this post:
So they actually for reals did that on purpose? I don’t know if that’s more or less funny than the alternative.
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.