![]() It was the only Trump casino still barely standing. And by the time his single term and presidency was over, the building was a carcass, teetering above a rotting Rainforest Cafe attached to what was once the lobby. ![]() Within three decades, he would add two more casinos and watch them all collapse into bankruptcy and closure and disrepair.īy the time he was the Republican presidential nominee in 2016, his failures in Atlantic City were so well established that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, staged a press conference on the rubble of the Trump Plaza, which had been shut down in 2014. In 1984, the former president opened the casino as a 39-story symbol of the scalability of the Trump brand. ![]() Reporters and city officials filed onto the balcony as a crowd formed on the sand below, angling for a look at Trump Plaza as it loomed across the boardwalk for 60 seconds more, an ugly mosaic of beige cement and black tarp, depressing even by the standards of the Atlantic City skyline in February. Inside Caesars, I walked through the forest of slot machines toward One Atlantic, a sleek wedding venue repurposed as a gallery for viewing the city’s divorce from Donald Trump. On Wednesday morning in Atlantic City, conditions were perfect for a demolition: 27 degrees and clear, the sun shining over the gray sea.
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