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.
I'm waiting for Danny Strong to write a Trump movie. He wrote Recount and Game Change for HBO and they're both magnificent and I very highly recommend.
Also he was fucking hilarious on Gilmore Girls. I love that little guy so much.
I'm eagerly looking forward to a future Ken Burns style documentary with folksy voiceover actors calmly reading various unhinged tweets accompanied by the same style of music he used for The Civil War.
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.
The line from Watchmen comes to mind: "Now if you begin to feel an intense and crushing feeling of religious terror at the concept, don't be alarmed. That indicates only that you are still sane."
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 watched the presser but I can't remember, did they even try to spin it on the spot? Like did anyone come up with an intro like, "Thanks to the good people of Four Seasons Total Landscaping for having us here today. We chose this place because these are the the types of working class heroes we are appealing to about this sham of an election!". Anything like that??
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!”’
Man. Truth really is stranger than fiction, huh? You couldn't write this shit without an audience rolling their eyes hard enough to fall out of their heads but this actually happened.
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u/TimelyConcern 28d ago
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/four-seasons-total-landscaping-the-full-est-possible-story.html
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.