| Industry | Landscape gardening |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1992 |
| Headquarters | 7347 State Rd, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19136, United States |
| Products | Grounds Maintenance, Snow clearance, Landscape design, Car park rental |
| Owner | Marie Siravo |
| Website | www.fourseasonstotallandscaping.com |
Four Seasons Total Landscaping is a family run landscaping company based in Philadelphia established in 1992. The company is certified through the City of Philadelphia with the Minority Business Enterprise Council and offers ground maintenance,snow clearance and other services. The company's car park was used as a for an official press conference of the Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign hosted by Rudy Giuliani to, without evidence, claim election fraud.[1][2]
Location
editFour Seasons Total Landscaping is located in north Philadelphia off the Delaware Expressway between a sex shop, Fantasy Island Bookstore and Delaware Valley Cremation Centre.[3][4][5]
Official 2020 Trump presidential reelection campaign press conference
editThe business was widely covered by international news media when on November 7th 2020 the company's car park hosted an official 2020 Trump presidential reelection campaign press conference.[6][7] President Trump tweeted from his official Twitter account 'Big press conference today in Philadelphia at Four Seasons Total Landscaping -- 11:30am!'.[8] The press conference included Rudy Giuliani, Pam Bondi, Corey Lewandowksi and convicted sex offender Daryl Brooks, it was decorated with a Trump 2020 banner pinned to a garage door and used the 1988 Guns N' Roses number 1 US single Sweet Child o' Mine.[9][4][10] The press conference was used to accuse, without evidence, the Democratic Party of election fraud.[5] During the press conference Giuliani was told by a reporter that news media has called the election for Biden, he asked which network and was told ‘all of them’.[7]
The venue was mistakenly booked when confused with the Four Seasons Hotel. The mistake was compared to the BBC television series The Thick of It.[11]
The company in response began selling merchandise based on Trump slogans e.g MAKE AMERICA RAKE AGAIN and LAWN AND ORDER!.[9]
Bernie D’Angelo, the owner of Fantasy Island, an adult bookstore nextdoor to the venue thought "they were definitely in the wrong location, because we’re an industrial commercial area. I couldn’t understand why they would bring something of this caliber to our location, because there’s no real venue that would support something of this sort."[12]
In popular culture
editA large number of comedians joked about the Trump campaign rally including a Saturday Night Live sketch with Kate McKinnon appearing as Rudy Giuliani talking about the company and the event.[13][14]
External links
editReferences
edit- ^ Yeo, Patricia Kelly (2020-11-08). "Four Seasons Total Landscaping: We Would Have 'Proudly' Hosted Any Candidate". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ "Not that Four Seasons: how Trump event ended up next to sex shop". South China Morning Post. 2020-11-09. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ "The Four Seasons Total Landscaping parking lot is as low as history might ever have to go | Tom Peck". The Independent. 2020-11-09. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ a b Stein, Lachlan Markay,Asawin Suebsaeng,Sam (2020-11-07). "The End of the Line for Trumpland Is a Poorly Rated Sex Shop in North Philly". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "From crucial flips to Four Seasons Total Landscaping: The biggest moments of US election week". www.abc.net.au. 2020-11-08. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ "US election: Lawyers for Donald Trump call press conference in parking lot of landscaping company". NZ Herald. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ a b "The final humiliation: Did Trump team confuse hotel with backstreet garden centre?". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ "Giuliani holds Trump press conference in front of landscape business, prompting confusion". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ a b Bekiempis, Victoria (2020-11-09). "'Make America rake again': Four Seasons Total Landscaping cashes in on Trump fiasco". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ Zak, Dan; Heller, Karen. "It began on a gold escalator. It may have ended at Four Seasons Total Landscaping". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ "Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci reacts to Trump team's Four Seasons blunder". The Independent. 2020-11-08. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ Hampton, Rachelle (2020-11-10). "An Interview With the Owner of the Sex Shop Next to Four Seasons Landscaping". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
- ^ "Four Seasons Total Landscaping flooded with joke reviews following Trump debacle". indy100. 2020-11-09. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ Alter, Rebecca (2020-11-08). "SNL's Rudy Giuliani Talks Four Seasons Total Landscaping on Weekend Update". Vulture. Retrieved 2020-11-09.