Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference

On November 7, 2020, four days after the United States presidential election was held, Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City and an attorney for then-president Donald Trump, hosted a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, a small business in the Holmesburg neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The event was held at the company's garage door and parking lot to discuss the status of the Trump campaign's legal challenges to the ballot-counting process in the state, where the president's apparent lead over Joe Biden in the first ballots counted had shifted to a shortfall as mailed-in ballots were counted for Philadelphia, historically a heavily Democratic city.

Shortly after Giuliani began talking to the assembled reporters, the Associated Press projected Biden as the winner of the Pennsylvania vote and thus the nationwide election.

”[13] According to The New York Times, Trump's team had intended to hold the press conference at the landscaper business but the president thought they meant the upscale Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia in Center City.

[b][11] PBS reporter Daniel Bush said an unnamed company representative told him the Trump campaign had called the landscapers and said their location "was close to an exit on I-95, and was secure, and that's why they wanted to use it.

"[11] It was later revealed that an hour before the event was first announced, a Trump staffer had called the former director of sales at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Sean Middleton, to ask if the company would be willing to host a news conference.

[11] In Four Seasons' parking lot, with help from Corey Lewandowski and Pam Bondi,[18] a lectern had been set up in front of a garage door papered over with Trump campaign signs in red and blue.

"[a][19] Also in attendance was a personal friend of Giuliani's,[20] Bernard Kerik, who had recently received a full presidential pardon for offenses including tax fraud and lying to White House officials.

[2] During the event, while Giuliani was stating how strong their case was,[19] a reporter interrupted to say that all of the major news networks were now joining in projecting Biden's victory.

[4] Giuliani said that Philadelphia "has a sad history of voter fraud" including ballots submitted by dead people, specifically mentioning boxer Joe Frazier and actor Will Smith's father.

[29] After looking into the cases of Frazier and Smith as well as a list of others, Republican City Commissioner Al Schmidt[30] told White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins that "Not a single one voted in Philadelphia after they died.

[35] One journalist likened the event to an appearance by Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi driving a golf cart and carrying a large umbrella as NATO forces began bombing the country to support a 2011 rebellion.

[37] The event was also criticized for including Daryl Brooks, a New Jersey–based perennial candidate and convicted sex offender; Giuliani later told the New York Daily News that he was unaware of the man's history.

While Lewandowski was present at the Trump election night party, possibly making him a part of the White House COVID-19 outbreak responsible for at least three other diagnoses, he said he may have caught it while in Philadelphia, without specifying Four Seasons Total Landscaping as the site of his infection.

[42] Olivia Nuzzi, of New York magazine, published an extensive report about the event that involved "more than 37 sources spread throughout the White House, the Trump campaign, the president's network of advisers both formal and informal, the Republican Party, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

[46] It drew humor and parody on social media, where it was assumed the Trump campaign had simply made a mistake with the booking,[47][48] and it was compared to similar mishaps in the political satire series Veep and The Thick of It.

[66] A Change.org petition that called for the location to be added to the National Register of Historic Places was launched,[67] and it was jokingly suggested that if Trump were to create a presidential library then it should be built at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

[69] The company's Instagram bio describes the firm as a "woman-owned, minority business ... that does great landscaping & perfect snow removal" and is "trying to make America green again!

[70] Some of the items for sale featured wording based on Trump slogans, such as Make America Rake Again and Lawn and Order!‍[71] Just three weeks later, over 30,000 shirts had been sold.

[75] Four Seasons Total Landscaping planned to host a surf and turf gala on May 8, 2021, in order to benefit four ALS-related charities that were unable to do any fundraising activities in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the event was rescheduled to September 25, 2021, and subsequently cancelled.

"[85] American comedian Tim Heidecker wrote a song about the event,[86][87][88] and British comedy writer Michael Spicer created a spoof advert.

[89][90] Artist Tracey Snelling created a multimedia diorama model of the site and neighboring businesses, which includes video from the event as well as clips of Giuliani's controversial appearance in the mockumentary Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.

[93] On August 21, 2021, punk rock musician Laura Jane Grace played a concert at the venue to a sold-out crowd of 200 people.

Businesses on State Road, Philadelphia
Four Seasons Total Landscaping facade