Four Seasons Total Landscaping
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Famous internet fails10 of 11
2020·Short-form and streams·unexpected
A presidential legal campaign held its press conference in a landscaping firm's car park, between a sex shop and a crematorium.
At a glanceThe facts
- Spread in
- 2020
- Began as
- Something that happened offline
- Where it started
- physical
- Format
- Event
- Where
- The car park of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, in north-east Philadelphia
- Who or what it shows
- Rudy Giuliani, speaking for Donald Trump’s campaign
- Origin
- Not an upload originally
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
On 7 November 2020, four days after the US presidential election, Rudy Giuliani held a press conference about the Trump campaign's legal challenges. It took place in the parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, a small business in northeast Philadelphia, in front of the garage door. Reporters noted the neighbouring premises: an adult bookshop on one side, a crematorium on the other. While Giuliani was speaking, the Associated Press called Pennsylvania, and the election, for Joe Biden.
The landscaping company embraced it, sold merchandise, and became a minor Philadelphia landmark; a charity fun run and a concert have since been staged there. It is now the standard reference point for a plan that goes wrong in a way nobody could have designed.
Why it matteredWhat changed
A presidential campaign held a press conference in the car park of a landscaping firm that shared a name with a hotel. While it was going on, the Associated Press called the election for the other candidate.
TimelineIn order
- Made
At 9.35 a.m. Trump tweets that the event will be at “Four Seasons, Philadelphia”, then corrects it. It begins at about 11.50, and the Associated Press projects Joe Biden as the winner soon after.1
- Mainstream
A concert is held at the site.1
- Mainstream
A television documentary about the day is broadcast, a year on.1
What people misrememberSet straight
Commonly remembered asSomebody booked the wrong Four Seasons.
ActuallyAccording to the New York Times the campaign meant to book the landscaper. It was the candidate who assumed it was the hotel.1
LegacyWhat it left behind
- The firm sold about 30,000 shirts in three weeks and some 1.3 million dollars of merchandise.1
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast
This happened away from the internet before anybody put it online. Originally published on physical.
Where it came fromWhat we know
There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. There is no copy of it here either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
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