# Four Seasons Landscaping--has the owner made any (serious) public comments? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 10, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-seasons-landscaping-has-the-owner-made-any-serious-public-comments/925223 "2020-11-10T13:56:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-seasons-landscaping-has-the-owner-made-any-serious-public-comments/925223/1 "2020-11-10T13:56:29Z")
This story is just so much fun…the standup comics and twitter-verse are have a grand time. It has everything…Trump, a serious press conference, a porn shop, a crematorium…no fiction writer would dare to write a story like this. .But I’m wondering about some more mundane stuff.: has the owner of the business made any public statements about how it all came about? After all, it ain’t every day that a small business gets a phone call from the President Who made the call from the White House, and how did they introduce themselves? Who answered the call at the landscaper’s office, and how did they react? (If it happened to me, I would assume it’s a prank call, and hang up.) There must have been some special arrangements with the Secret Service. How does an average citizen deal with this? Did men in black suddenly show up asking questions about securing the site: who is on staff this specific shift, who has the keys to the gate, etc? and oh yeah…did the owner (or anybody else) think to mention that there’s a porn shop nearby? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-seasons-landscaping-has-the-owner-made-any-serious-public-comments/925223/2 "2020-11-10T14:21:27Z")
I haven’t seen anything, but the owner of the sex shop next door has been interviewed in _Slate._ > **[An Interview With the Owner of the Sex Shop Next to Four Seasons Landscaping](https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/11/interview-fantasy-island-sex-shop-four-seasons-landscaping-philadelphia.html)** > > “One of our customers said, there's something happening, it looks kind of crazy out there.” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-seasons-landscaping-has-the-owner-made-any-serious-public-comments/925223/3 "2020-11-10T14:27:10Z")
Since neither candidate was there, Secret Service involvement would be minimal at best or not at all.(Witness the incident with the Biden campaign bus and the Trump Mobile Militia) There have been several stories of how this happened, who knew what or who didn’t know what they were doing. I don’t think there’s been a final version. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-seasons-landscaping-has-the-owner-made-any-serious-public-comments/925223/4 "2020-11-10T15:24:01Z")
I look forward to the many tell-all books about the Trump White House and his campaigns. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-seasons-landscaping-has-the-owner-made-any-serious-public-comments/925223/5 "2020-11-10T15:49:23Z")
Wrong forum. Sorry ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-seasons-landscaping-has-the-owner-made-any-serious-public-comments/925223/6 "2020-11-10T20:15:25Z")
I don’t know if this is supposed to a comedic response, but in this thread, it made me laugh. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-seasons-landscaping-has-the-owner-made-any-serious-public-comments/925223/7 "2020-11-10T20:43:31Z")
It was a press conference by the Trump campaign, and I doubt that campaign officials get SS protection. I don’t think Giuliani gets it either as a personal attorney, rather than being a family member or federal official. The campaign itself may have private security that secured the site. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-seasons-landscaping-has-the-owner-made-any-serious-public-comments/925223/8 "2020-11-10T20:59:23Z")
I think that Politics and Elections is more appropriate for this than GQ. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-seasons-landscaping-has-the-owner-made-any-serious-public-comments/925223/9 "2020-11-10T21:50:43Z")
Employees have talked. > [@](#): > > [The New York Times reported](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/politics/trump-books-four-seasons.html) that it was always intended to be at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, or at least intended to be in northeast Philadelphia … Philly is a very liberal city, and the northeast is a more Republican pocket. > > [A PBS reporter said](https://twitter.com/DanielBush/status/1325143314170048514) that it was an intentional location and that it was close to an exit on I-95 and was secure. And that’s actually what we were told when we went to Four Seasons Total Landscaping yesterday and talked with an employee. He said that his boss had gotten the call Saturday morning from Trump campaign staffers. He figured that they must have found the business on Google and were interested because it was a secure location behind a security fence. > **[Four Seasons Total Landscaping presser was 'chaotic, confusing and a bit...](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.5795271/four-seasons-total-landscaping-presser-was-chaotic-confusing-and-a-bit-surreal-says-reporter-1.5795402)** > > Rudy Giuliani's press conference outside a landscaping business between a sex shop and a crematorium was a "very weird" event to cover, says reporter Oona Goodin-Smith. Corey Lewandoski and Pam Bondi hosted a press conference two days prior, which was drowned out by Democrats blaring Beyonce Knowles tunes. So apparently they picked a quieter (heh), relatively Republican spot in Philadelphia. The timeline suggests the Trump campaign actually intended to pick that business, due to its location, and didn’t think about the potential confusion with a much likelier spot. So I guess I can’t congratulate the owner of Four Seasons Total Landscaping for deliberately humiliating Giuliani, but the stupidity is still pretty intense. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-seasons-landscaping-has-the-owner-made-any-serious-public-comments/925223/10 "2020-11-10T22:50:07Z")
No way am I going to believe that story. Somebody screwed up. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-seasons-landscaping-has-the-owner-made-any-serious-public-comments/925223/11 "2020-11-10T23:06:24Z")
Yep. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9hNIX7V21pU/hqdefault.jpg "Pee Wee Herman: "I meant to do that!"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hNIX7V21pU)