Still, the demolition will mark the symbolic finale of the former president's casino empire in the seaside resort city. Onlookers in cars will be charged $10 and herded into a lot most recently used as a pandemic-era food distribution site. The New York Times reports that the spectacle-likely watched worldwide online for its symbolic value-didn't mean much to those who live locally:Īn auction for the rights to detonate the dynamite to begin the implosion of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, N.J., fizzled.įront-row seats to view Wednesday morning's planned spectacle were sold on the cheap. The detonation took place just after 9:00 am ET. president's prized Trump Plaza-abandoned and left to decay after a series of bankruptcies and failures-was demolished.Īs the Associated Press reported, the former casino-now 'a smoking pile of rubble'-was 'imploded after falling into such disrepair that chunks of the building began peeling off and crashing to the ground.'
The once towering symbol of Donald Trump's Atlantic City performance as a real estate magnate and casino wunderkind was turned into dust Wednesday morning when the disgraced former U.S.
