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For me, the icing on the cake was the press conference at Four Seasons Landscaping.

Someone made a silly mistake in the booking, but either nobody noticed, or couldn't be bothered to correct it, or dared not be the one to tell Trump the mistake had been made. So the President (staff? apparently not him) gives a final press conference in the parking lot of a suburban store. It would be like watching the Emperor of Japan surrender in a dinghy because somebody brought the wrong Missouri.

Unforced error. Abandonment of dignity. Refusal to acknowledge the situation. Hallmarks of the administration.

(News accuracy notice: while it appears to have been an official press conference only Guiliani was actually there and not Trump himself)

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"Book it at the Four Season", "No, not that one", "Yes, the random landscaping company".

I personally cannot tell if it was intentional. Trump has held a lot of events at businesses that I wouldn't traditionally expect to hold the event. The name overlap is very interesting, though.

This Philadelphia Inquirer journalist says that the hotel was announced first, but then it was changed https://twitter.com/jeremyrroebuck/status/132509276171710464...

I honestly wonder if it was originally booked at the Four Seasons hotel, but Trump vetoed that idea because of his stake in Trump Hotels.

Very likely

Or the Four Seasons wouldn't/couldn't take the booking.

then why not book in a Trump Hotel in the first place?

Hanlon's razor tells that it was a stupid mistake

Was he there? I watched for a few minutes and it just seemed like it was Guliani bringing poll watchers to say how they felt their rights to observe was infringed.

Apparently not, so I've made an edit.

"final" press conference - just so that you're not disapointed later, but Trump is president until 20th of january, so he has some time yet to make announcements when he wants to.

I love to think that it's because 1) nobody else would take them 2) the campaign is out of money so this is the only Four Seasons they could afford.

I didn't know about this - thank you. I am overdosing on schadenfreude.

One thing I would like to tell democrats now that you are WINNERS. And I mean it with all well being. Is that I think you should really not focus on your opponent but on your own candidate and party. We are all just humans in the end.

Really so what? This obsession with dignity in politics is peasant, like most of them are half ass decent.

It's kind of a hallmark of diplomacy. Leadership should not be as uncouth as the peasantry.

Dividing into 'leadership and peasantry' is not my kind of leader. Of the people, for the people is what I expect.

But "you" don't vote that way

I was not saying we should only elect our most insulated and inbred. Joe Sixpack is a perfectly valid candidate.

The point is that when negotiations are at stake, you want an actual diplomat at the table, not an insult comic. If Joe Sixpack can keep his shit together enough to avert a war, feel free to elect him.

This is a fascinating comment that really speaks volumes.

I would be very interested to know your life history.

How do behave when you go to Church? To a funeral? Out to dinner? To work in the office? It's just recognizing that not every occasion is a wrestling match.

Politics is about persuasion. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

Thanks, I couldn't have said that better myself. I'm no guru. We just seem to have lost touch with why we even have democratically-elected leaders in the first place.

I mean, there's been a literal duel in the Senate and brawls in the House... so what do I know? Democracy is messy business.

https://www.cop.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Duel...

https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1851-1900/Th...

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