But even after Donald Trump’s once-gleaming former casino along the famed New Jersey Boardwalk was turned into rubble, the far-right, anti-immigrant, white identity politics the former president embraced still stand and threaten to undermine Republicans‘ chances of holding onto a state Senate seat in South Jersey they flipped from Democratic control four years ago.
Sen. Chris Brown (R-Atlantic) announced his retirement in February, a month after he was one of just two New Jersey Republicans to vote for a resolution condemning Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The GOP establishment in Atlantic County quickly rallied around Vince Polistina, an engineer and former two-term assemblymember, to run to replace Brown in the 2nd Legislative District.
Trump Plaza implosion marks the end of an Atlantic City empire
Updated Feb 15, 2021;
Posted Feb 14, 2021
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Glass, brass, and class. A centerpiece of a fledgling empire. An absolute delight to developers.
The Trump Plaza of the 1980s is a far cry from the nameless building of today, dismantled into a skeleton, awaiting the day it will soon be reduced to rubble.
The Wednesday implosion of the casino, which comes nearly seven years after the last slot-machine levers were pulled, is the final destruction of former President Donald Trump’s mark on Atlantic City.
Trump Plaza was the tenth casino to open in Atlantic City when it welcomed gamblers in May of 1984, seven years after the legalization of gambling in 1977. Trump, then in the early stages of his real estate career, pinned the city’s success on his building, which was his first foray into casinos.