There are very few moments most of us want to relive from this time last year. But here’s one: Rudy Giuliani’s press conference debacle at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. What a treat.
Big (huge!) thanks to MSNBC for bringing us Four Seasons Total Documentary, delving into what the f*** happened. It’s airing on the anniversary of the fiasco—November 7 at 10pm EST.
Here’s a spoiler: the explanation might not be as simple as “a Trump staffer called the wrong Four Seasons and the campaign embraced it.” The doc suggests it could have been an intentional choice motivated by penny pinching and the convenient close-to-highway location.
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“It didn’t strike me as totally shocking,” journalist Olivia Nuzzi, who reported on Trump for six-plus years and tried to answer the unanswerable questions last year, told Washingtonian. “It’s not as if this is a group of people known for making normal decisions.”
Aside from trying to answer all the baffling whys of the situation, the doc also explores the impact it had on real live people—namely the owners and staff of Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
Aside from trying to answer all the baffling whys of the situation, the doc also explores the impact it had on real live people—namely the owners and staff of Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
Their business became the ultimate selfie site with daily flocks of tourists, and pulled in more than $1.3 million in sales in less than a month after the press conference, owner Marie Siravo told The Guardian.
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There were threats, too, of course. And more than a thousand voicemails. Enduring are the many, many t-shirts—featuring the business name with slogans like “Make America Rake Again (we are not a hotel),” “Lawn and Order,” and “Your Campaign is Dead, But Your Grass Doesn’t Have to Be.”
This weekend, you can indulge in the ridiculousness once again—as Four Seasons staff did just last week when they dressed up to recreate the event for Halloween.
Watch it Sunday, November 7, at 10pm Eastern on MSNBC
