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Leaders across the world have offered their congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the president-elect and vice-president-elect, following their campaign’s victory over Donald Trump.
Yes, there will be recounts, and yes, there will be court cases, but neither will change the fact that Trump has lost his bid for re-election.
Even the newsdesk at Fox is coming around to this fact, slowly but surely.
In the weeks and months to come, thousands upon thousands of articles will be written about where and how Trump lost, from his criminally inept handling of the COVID-19 pandemic to his inability to recognise the pain felt by millions of Americans, who cried out that black lives matter.
There will be no shortage of articles that focus on how the Democrats failed to connect with rural American voters, or Latino voters, and this back and forth will continue for years.
Putting that aside, let’s just focus on one moment that somehow manages to encapsulate the Trump presidency so perfectly you’d think the team behind Veep wrote it.
On Saturday, reports the Guardian, as Trump golfed, his campaign “staged a purportedly major press conference at a Philadelphia landscaping business situated between a crematorium and sex shop”.
How it arrived at that point is magic:
…the president announced, in a tweet that was subsequently deleted, a “big press conference” at the Four Seasons in Philadelphia.
Trump quickly altered his statement, revealing that the press conference venue was not a Four Seasons hotel, but Four Seasons Total Landscaping, a suburban business between a crematorium and an adult book store on the outer edges of the city…
The Trump campaign has not publicly said whether this was, as it would appear, a case of mistaken identity.
Come on – you think they intentionally booked the car park of a landscaping business?
Better still, Trump’s personal lawyer and Borat key figure Rudy Giuliani was in the midst of spewing more baseless voter fraud claims when Biden’s victory was announced.
He took it well:
In a word, SAD!
Like this guy, who rocked up during a press conference late last week by Joe Gloria, the Clark Country registrar of voters, regarding Nevada and that state’s ongoing vote count:
Add that guy to the long list of Trump supporters who aren’t taking the loss well.
Sad also describes the expression written across Donald Trump’s face as he left the golf course on Saturday, and was confronted by celebrations in the streets:
Never forget this moment:
Trump watches celebrations of his defeat as he returns to the White House from playing golf on Saturday. (Getty) pic.twitter.com/tj5YSYcWIg
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 7, 2020
Back to the Four Seasons fiasco, and more insight from the Washington Post:
…a pair of Trump’s most loyal surrogates made a defiant stand on the gravelly backside of a landscaping business in an industrial stretch of Northeast Philadelphia, near a crematorium and an adult-video store called Fantasy Island, along State Road, which leads — as being associated with Trump sometimes does — to a prison.
Rudolph Giuliani, America’s mayor turned Trump’s sloppy fixer, squinted into the autumnal sun at journalists who had assembled outside Four Seasons Total Landscaping — a choice of location that multiple Trump staffers could not account for, saying that it was the work of the campaign’s Pennsylvania advance team.
Some insiders in the Trump campaign insisted that they intended to hold the press conference there, in “a friendlier part of town” designed to appeal to working-class voters, but wouldn’t go on the record.
This from the same people that insist Trump’s infamous ‘covfefe’ tweet wasn’t a mistake, but rather some sort of deeper-meaning, coded message to supporters.
Added bonus here, via Politico:
The first person Giuliani…called up as a witness to baseless allegations of vote counting shenanigans in Philadelphia during a press conference last week is a sex offender who for years has been a perennial candidate in New Jersey.
“It’s such a shame. This is a democracy,” Daryl Brooks, who said he was a GOP poll watcher, said at the press conference…
Brooks was incarcerated in the 1990s on charges of sexual assault, lewdness and endangering the welfare of a minor for exposing himself to two girls ages 7 and 11, according to news accounts.
Very fine people.
Anyway, the jokes were swift and brutal:
Don’t worry Trumpworld, the guys who confused Four Seasons Total Landscaping for the Four Seasons Hotel are going to mastermind a way to subvert the Electoral College and keep Donald Trump in office.
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) November 8, 2020
I could write jokes for 800 years and I’d never think of something funnier than Trump booking the Four Seasons for his big presser, and it turning out to be the Four Seasons Total Landscaping parking lot between a dildo store and a crematorium. pic.twitter.com/P45HV1daD9
— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) November 8, 2020
This is not over. For we shall mount our righteous stand at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Next to Fantasy Island Adult Books. Across the street from the Delaware Valley Cremation Center. Between the fire extinguisher and yellow hose. #MAGA pic.twitter.com/hxuAsbEjXi
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) November 7, 2020
My favorite of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping moments pic.twitter.com/sBn6fyIjw9
— Tia Landry (@tia_ms17) November 7, 2020
Meanwhile, because they’re incapable of ‘taking the L’, Trump senior adviser (and 2016 campaign manager) Corey Lewandowski went this route:
All great Americans in PA use Four Seasons Total Landscaping. They love this country and are American Patriots. Thank you!!
— Corey R. Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) November 8, 2020
No, Corey, thank you.
When history books cover what the Trump campaign was doing at the exact moment Joe Biden was announced as president-elect, the answer will always be talking nonsense in the parking lot of a landscaping business, while the man himself golfed.
