Absolutely my favorite thing that came out of that shit show. I really wish the person that set that up, or at least a first-hand witness, would do a tell-all interview. Was the actual Four Seasons booked and some underpaid, overworked intern said fuck it, good enough? Did Google somehow produce a landscaping company as the top result? What was Rudy’s reaction?
I would love to see a fly-on-the-wall style comedy drama show on those final days, something like the Office. The moment where they get to the garden centre and realise it’s what they have to work with would be top notch farce
Nah, thats pushing it but I like the thought process.
The idea of micheal scott being operations manager for trump towers where you could tastefully have trump walk around to whistle tracks and give one liners would be <3
It’s worth the watch I didn’t watch it until peak trump and it was weird how parallel the stories lines were to life even though it was a couple of years earlier. Takes a season or two to get into though.
The jokes practically write themselves! I’d love Trump’s character to do the Sue Sylvester-style tantrum of breaking shit and shoving people into walls, complete with something like O Fortuna playing in the background.
They can honestly make a Crimson Tide style thriller as well. I guarantee there are dozens of instances some unnamed hero saved us from a world war repeatedly.
They can do a mini series and start on election night 2016. First episode is called "this want supposed to happen" it opens with the actress playing Milana and her anger at him winning. Then they show trump getting all his congrats as he closes himself in a hotel room for a second and full on rages.
Second episode is "Fake News" and we get the over veiw of the staff getting interviewed and meeting trump and the media people. Omg who would pay Kelly Ann?
I love those political biopic/dramas, like Game Change or W or Snowden that show a dramatic, slightly exaggerated but informative look with empathy at what was really going on behind the scenes in a distilled way that I can understand
but you're absolutely right that the incoming series or movie about any part of Trump's administration is going to be an Office-style comedy. It can't not be. Even if they tried to make it as 100% serious as they possibly can-- because real tragedy happened during that administration-- there's still going to be pervasive laugh-out-loud moments at the absolute idiocy of it all.
Arrested development would be a better fit. They already have many catchphrases, there's some criminal activity going on, lots of entitled selfish racists grifters, and then you have Tobias (Eric).
I'm just waiting for the inevitable movie about Trump's presidency and I really hope it's made more like The Big Short than The Social Network. Trump needs a comedic mind to make a movie about it all because that would just kill him. If someone serious made a movie he'd probably think it was reverent. Give me an Adam McKay or Taiki Waititi to make that movie and I'm all in.
Something in the style of Veep would be great. Maybe in 10 years or so. I need some more distance between that reality and myself before I can truly find it funny.
Here's a pretty good story that was done shortly after the incident. They didn't get the scoop from someone inside of the administration unfortunately. I'm still waiting for that follow up.
When I heard American Crime Story was doing Impeachment, I thought that was quick. Maybe COVID is delaying the first dramatization of the 2016-2020 (2021) shit show
I only watched the trailer but I hear you. The truth is that trump isn’t stupid. He knows the system and worked it. The real focus is on the monster and I think that is a great direction to take. He’s a confident con man making deals for loyalty behind closed doors. That’s trump.
I was living in Mexico nearly his whole presidency, and it's embarrassing when I'd go to the molino in the morning and the asshole Real Housewives of San Ildefonso are tearing me a new one about my presidents' antics.
I’m just curious as to how he was described in Spanish? My sympathies, though. A friend of mine had the same experience in the UK. He had to constantly tell people he didn’t vote for the guy.
It's one of those things that, 20 years from now when they make a movie about this (it certainly will not be the first, but I imagine many will be made for decades after) a lot of young people won't remember/won't have been alive during Trump's presidency.
They'll see what he's saying and then say, "This is totally unrealistic. It's impossible a President would ever say this. This writing sucks." Then someone will point out to them that this is actual, real life footage of a Trump speech that they put in for context.
I don't know why thinking about that scenario amuses me so much.
I have a lot of this fantasy casted in my head already. Jared Kushner played by Michael Cera. DJTJ played by Adam Scott. Zach Cregger as Eric Trump. Amanda Seyfried as Ivanka. Anthony Scarramucci as himself. Bob Odenkirk as Jeff Sessions. Christian Bale as Rudy. Pick somebody random from a movie produced by Steve Mnuchin to play him. Jordan Peele as Ben Carson. Keegan Key on to play Cory Booker in a couple random episodes. Imelda Staunton(played umbridge) as Betsy Devos. Steve Carell as Mike Pence(mostly so we can have him shouting "Fuck! Fuck! FUCK!" once per season for the first 3 seasons, then just assuming he's going to become president at some point and being repeatedly disappointed).
Wait, you think we're out of that timeline? We've just barely started the 2nd chapter, and haven't even got to "Trump 2: large assed disaster" yet. Heck we haven't even got to the meteor scene where only 60% of the population believes in it and 40% get vaporized despite easily accessible shelters being available to everyone.
Yeah, I read a few stories where it’s spun as being intentional. But that’s really all they could find for a venue? There must be a few wealthy Trump supporters/donors in that area with a nice lawn that would have served better.
Literally anywhere else would have been better for them. Not for us, Four Seasons Total Landscaping was the best choice for the comedy loving public, but Giuliani could have stood on a soap box screaming at passing traffic on 95 and it would have better for them.
Recently, there was a report that this was the SECOND 4 seasons landscaping that was booked for a presser. The first was cancelled when trump got Covid.
I believe it was intentional. They got a huge amount of press out of it, and Rudy comes off as the idiot, not trump. They knew what they were doing.
I would still wonder if there wasn't any misdirection going on. Like, perhaps a staff member was trying to do the owner of the place a favor (for whatever reason), and just kept mentioning 'Four Seasons' without adding the landscaping part until the last moment. And once Trump's first tweet was out there was no going back.
Yeah but then the media and the general public would have searched the heck out of the owner of that lawn and oops, all their dirty laundry hiding in the corners of the internet is now on CNN.
"Guiliani's press conference friend donated ten grand to local KKK chapter in 1977!"
I’m so butthurt I read that wholeeee long article and at the end the writer goes “yeah it was the height of idiocy and that’s probably all there ever was to it” (paraphrased) and that’s the only real answer given lol
The one guy who spoke at the four seasons was there at the convention center watching the nail in vote counting, so was I, it was wild to listen to all the lies about what was happening there after seeing first hand what was really happening. He and I were on the same shift so I know the lies he told and it was illuminating!
‘The Siravos were nothing if not good marketers, and by December, they’d sold more than $1 million of the merchandise they’d drawn up to capitalize on all the attention, like stickers that read “Make America Rake Again!” and “Lawn and Order!”’
I don't think you do understand. Because you are grinning. Why are you grinning? You are grinning. You have made a fuckup the size of France and you are fucking grinning about it.
This is also the first thing I thought of. The panicked quick pan of the camera to show the landscaping company signage while Rudy and staffers put their hands on their face and mutter. Comedic gold here waiting to be put together.
I could see April drolly trolling Leslie that she booked the landscaping company — “whatever, it said 4 seasons” — but actually booked the best ballroom at the hotel.
Or the landscaping company somehow being booked by accident, but Tom Haverford gets ahead of it and somehow makes it look fantastic and spins it into a win.
Ron would be bitching the whole time about having to dress up and waste the taxpayers money on a pointless ceremony because he thinks it's the 4 seasons hotel. He eventually finds out that it's the landscaping company the day before the event and gets super giddy because not only did they spend a fraction of the budget to book the landscaping company compared to the hotel, but there's also plenty of room for him to bring his grill and fire up some real food.
It would even be too random for a family guy gag. Peter would do the 'remember the time we did a press conference at the four seasons landscaping' and even those writers would think 'nah, were going too far now'.
Believe it or not, it happened twice. A four seasons landscaping in California also hosted a Trump event. The only reason we don't hear about both is because Trump got Covid and couldn't attend the one in California. I think his son went instead.
Can we all take a second to remind ourselves that this clown owns businesses in the hospitality industry? He had access to some really great event planners.
Four Seasons fiasco was totally surreal. If some scriptwriter pitched that for a tv episode people would say it’s too ridiculous to be believable. Would really love to know who / how many fucked up there and just how bigly.
My favorite was when he walked on to air force one with toilet paper on his shoe. He kept turning and waiving which made him look even more ridiculous.
I read a theory a while ago that the real four seasons was very close to a school, and a speaker at that press conference or a staffer? Idk who someone important enough, was a registered sex offender and they had to move things last minute. To avoid discussion about the real reason they just came up with the four seasons total landscaping as a way to move the conference away from schools without people looking into it much. Most democrats just thought that the trump campaign was incompetent and moved on.
Everything about that situation is so perfectly satirical. I bought a four seasons total landscaping shirt. For me, the Four Seasons incident is tied with the *Rudy is Melting * press conference as my favorite thing. Don’t get me wrong, I’d happily give those memories up to go back in time and avoid this whole mess, but failing that, these nuggets are the silver lining on the turd sweater that was the Trump presidency.
Lol, I just threw ours out. It was 7 years old and pretty gross. My oldest loved that thing and was upset with me, but she’d let the dog chew on it so it was time to say goodbye.
They painted themselves into a corner. They announced on Twitter that they would be doing a press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel without talking to the hotel first.
After they tweeted it, they called the Four Seasons Hotel and the hotel said get the fuck out of here with that hot garbage.
I live in Philadelphia and people were literally dancing in the streets when he lost. No business in Philly proper wanted their name attached to them.
Instead of backtracking on the tweet, they couldn’t admit that the Four Seasons didn’t want them, hence Four Seasons Landscaping next to the dildo store.
That shit had me absolutely cackling. I’d love to hear about Rudy’s reaction.
I listen to a podcast where one of the hosts met Rudy at a school function because she was on the newspaper. Apparently he has the most limp dicked, sweaty handshake she’s ever experienced.
Can you imagine what it was like working there the day they got the call to set up the event and whoever answered the phone decided to just run with it? What a surreal time that must have been, accepting such a strange proposal then seeing it all unfold.
By then, there were all sorts of rumors on State Road about the Siravo family’s connections with the Trump campaign and the Philadelphia Republican Party. But it had been nearly a week since Rudy Giuliani’s press conference in the parking lot out back, and the only evidence anyone could turn up to support the theory that what had occurred here wasn’t just a freak public-relations accident or hilarious fuckup were a few pro-Trump Facebook posts from Mike’s mother, Marie Siravo, who owns the business.
So the Facebook page of the business might not be all that political, but based on her personal page she does or did at least kinda support Trump. It's just smart to keep personal politics and business separate. Especially if you are pro-Trump and doing business in a democratic stronghold.
Ah interesting. I only knew Philly was mainly dem in general.
But still a wise move to not involve your business in your personal political opinions. Besides, it seems like the a type of business people often go more out of there way to visit (unlike e.g. a grocery store), so chances are they also get customers from outside of that district. They didn't just sell some pots and plants -- It was a bigger operation than that. IIRC they also do some off-site work like manicuring golf courses. So yeah, they have a fairly wide range.
Oh my god sauce because I have to make sure that's true, if so that's absolutely hilarious
EDIT: Googled it and sadly it's not. The owner is a woman, but she's white and good chance she's straight since her adult son works there too. Read an interview and they're trying to stay politically neutral but they also debunked the "they did it specifically to troll the Trump campaign" rumor. They said they would have done the same if Biden's people called them up.
They probably thought it was a prank call or joke and were like "Oh SUUURRE! We can host the presidential press conference here! Oh yea! 4 Star accomodations, red carpet, the works! You name it!" and then were like :/ when those imbeciles actually showed up to start setting up.
Make hay while the sun is shining. If all the sudden your formerly unknown light industrial plaza now is nationally famous, might as well get some cash out of it.
The person responsible for selling those T-shirts is immediately the smartest person associated with the Trump presidency in any way, shape, or fashion.
I know...that's kind of the joke. That some dude in a mini-mall answering the phones for a lawn care service had a brief interaction with the campaign and was the brightest bulb that particular room ever saw.
They learned something about milking spectacle from the guy that rented their business. It might be the one good thing you can learn from Donald Trump: how to successfully commoditize unexpected undeserved fame.
I've never lived there so I never knew the original station. I found them about 10 years ago on iTunes internet radio. I love them soooo much. They're independent and fund the station with listener donations. They tend to scrape by every month but you can tell it's a real struggle sometimes. I do my part to help them stay open and I think anyone who digs indie/modern rock and gives them a listen will love them too.
The fraud street run is my favorite event to come out it. It was an unorganized/unregistered mess (on purpose?). Everyone I know who did it claimed they won and most didn’t even run the planned route.
Also, I think the organizer said all the donations went directly to local food banks since there was no overhead which is pretty cool.
The Fraud Street Run was so fun, though. I forget exactly which charity the money went to, but I want to say it was Philabundance, which is an awesome org to support
I'd been wondering where all the socially-conscientious punk rockers had gone in the last few years. I would've expected more of them to be a little bit louder about everything that's been going on (then again, it's been a bit since my punk rock days, so I've probably missed a bit). Good to see Grace making an appearance!
So the truth came out and Rudy in no way thought he booked the Four Seasons hotel. He thought it was an event planner (perfect contact given the situation) that he had previously hired to organize an event also called four seasons (completely seperate entity from the landscaper we all know). So Rudy called up a landscaping company thinking it was affiliated with a similarly named event planning company in a different state, and didn't realize he was not talking to someone he had hired before. I feel like the landscapers realized right away Rudy called the wrong people but decided to fleece some money from him anyways, you know being a good trump supporter and all. Fleecing Rudy is basically a part of the party platform now.
I was reminded of this whole debacle this week when a group of anti-vaxxers attempted to raid a BBC studio and instead ended up raiding (unsuccessfully) an ITV studio where a group of women were discussing the menopause.
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u/2x4x93 28d ago
Just let him roll. You can't write stuff like he pulls off