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Why America Blew Up the Casino That Made a President

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My book, The Times You Grew Up With, takes you back: https://paulmcallister.store Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino opened in 1984 as the tallest building in Atlantic City and the first casino built by Donald Trump. For a few extraordinary years in the late 1980s, it was the most exciting address on the Boardwalk — hosting Mike Tyson’s biggest heavyweight title fights, WrestleMania IV and V, and generating record-breaking casino revenue that made Atlantic City the boxing capital of the world. Then Trump opened the Taj Mahal, cannibalized his own best customers to fill it, lost three top executives in a helicopter crash, and watched his casino empire collapse through three bankruptcies. Trump Plaza went from the top-earning casino on the Boardwalk to dead last. It closed in September 2014. Trump sued to have his own name removed from the building. For seven years, the abandoned tower stood rotting on the Boardwalk while chunks of its facade fell onto the streets below. The city declared it an immediate danger to human life. On February 17, 2021, three thousand sticks of dynamite brought it down in less than twenty seconds. The only letters still visible on the blackened facade were the faint outlines of MP PLAZ — the ghost of a name on a ghost of a building. This is the story of the casino that made a president — and the city that had to blow it up. Sources: Press of Atlantic City — coverage of Trump Plaza operations, closing, and demolition (1984–2021) New Jersey Casino Control Commission — annual gaming revenue reports and licensing records Philadelphia Inquirer — reporting on the October 1989 helicopter crash and executive deaths Institute for Justice — Vera Coking eminent domain case records and court filings (Casino Reinvestment Development Authority v. Banin, 1998) Associated Press — coverage of Trump Plaza implosion, February 17, 2021 Timothy L. O’Brien, TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald (Warner Books, 2005) — Trump’s Atlantic City financial history, junk bond financing, and the Kashiwagi baccarat sessions

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