Donald Trump's presidency came to an end on Saturday in a very special place: the parking lot of a landscaping company in Philadelphia. Next to a sex shop, opposite a crematorium. What happened?
Dozens of journalists from around the world heard on Saturday morning in a moth-eaten business park in Philadelphia that news channel CNN had declared Joe Biden the winner of the presidential election. Minutes later, the press conference of Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani began in that rather remarkable place. In front of a locked garage door plastered with Trump posters, the former New York mayor announced that the Trump team would be contesting the election results.
Many reporters were already on their way to the luxury hotel in Philadelphia's tallest skyscraper when the following tweet came from the president: "Big press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping - 11:30 am!"
Correspondent Richard Hall of the British newspaper The Independent called the Four Seasons Hotel to check whether he really shouldn't be in one of the conference rooms. The hotel apparently got so many questions that it distanced itself from the landscaping company of the same name: "To clarify, President Trump's press conference will NOT be at the Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia. It's at Four Seasons Total Landscaping - no relationship, "it tweeted Saturday morning.
Hall can hardly describe the confusion he felt as he hurried to the landscaping business on the fringes of town. Was this the president's last act of revenge against the lying fake news media? Was it a ruse to get all the journalists out of town before the results came out? ""
But according to Giuliani none of that was the case. Two days earlier, he had held a press conference with Trump's son Eric in downtown Philadelphia, the largest city in the hotly contested swing state of Pennsylvania. Then they barely got over cheering Joe Biden supporters.
That's why a Trump-friendly company had now been chosen, Giuliani claimed. Campaign strategist Corey Lewandowski went the extra mile: "All the great Americans in Philadelphia are Four Seasons Total Landscaping clients," he tweeted. "They love our country and are American patriots. Thanks!'
Still, it seems more likely that someone in the Trump camp accidentally called the wrong Four Seasons. The landscaping company itself was also surprised, it wrote on Facebook: `` We were honored to be asked to hold a press conference on our property. '' The family business has no special connection with the Trump campaign, according to the message: `` We would have for every presidential candidate. We strongly believe in America and in democracy. "
The unreal setting of the press conference provoked the necessary reactions on social media. "The real hero is the one who answered the phone at Four Seasons Landscaping and didn't ask for an explanation until it was too late," tweeted author Geraldine DeRuiter.
'I can write jokes for 800 years but never come up with anything more laughable than Trump booking the Four Seasons for his big press conference,' tweeted TV writer Zack Bornstein, 'and then ends up in the parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, between a dildo shop and a crematorium. '
The company itself is now making the most of it. It has very quickly launched a webshop where t-shirts, hoodies and stickers with the logo of Four Seasons Total Landscaping are for sale.
Dozens of journalists from around the world heard on Saturday morning in a moth-eaten business park in Philadelphia that news channel CNN had declared Joe Biden the winner of the presidential election. Minutes later, the press conference of Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani began in that rather remarkable place. In front of a locked garage door plastered with Trump posters, the former New York mayor announced that the Trump team would be contesting the election results.
Many reporters were already on their way to the luxury hotel in Philadelphia's tallest skyscraper when the following tweet came from the president: "Big press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping - 11:30 am!"
Correspondent Richard Hall of the British newspaper The Independent called the Four Seasons Hotel to check whether he really shouldn't be in one of the conference rooms. The hotel apparently got so many questions that it distanced itself from the landscaping company of the same name: "To clarify, President Trump's press conference will NOT be at the Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia. It's at Four Seasons Total Landscaping - no relationship, "it tweeted Saturday morning.
Hall can hardly describe the confusion he felt as he hurried to the landscaping business on the fringes of town. Was this the president's last act of revenge against the lying fake news media? Was it a ruse to get all the journalists out of town before the results came out? ""
But according to Giuliani none of that was the case. Two days earlier, he had held a press conference with Trump's son Eric in downtown Philadelphia, the largest city in the hotly contested swing state of Pennsylvania. Then they barely got over cheering Joe Biden supporters.
That's why a Trump-friendly company had now been chosen, Giuliani claimed. Campaign strategist Corey Lewandowski went the extra mile: "All the great Americans in Philadelphia are Four Seasons Total Landscaping clients," he tweeted. "They love our country and are American patriots. Thanks!'
Still, it seems more likely that someone in the Trump camp accidentally called the wrong Four Seasons. The landscaping company itself was also surprised, it wrote on Facebook: `` We were honored to be asked to hold a press conference on our property. '' The family business has no special connection with the Trump campaign, according to the message: `` We would have for every presidential candidate. We strongly believe in America and in democracy. "
The unreal setting of the press conference provoked the necessary reactions on social media. "The real hero is the one who answered the phone at Four Seasons Landscaping and didn't ask for an explanation until it was too late," tweeted author Geraldine DeRuiter.
'I can write jokes for 800 years but never come up with anything more laughable than Trump booking the Four Seasons for his big press conference,' tweeted TV writer Zack Bornstein, 'and then ends up in the parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, between a dildo shop and a crematorium. '
The company itself is now making the most of it. It has very quickly launched a webshop where t-shirts, hoodies and stickers with the logo of Four Seasons Total Landscaping are for sale.
