This week, shock waves from the bursting of Trump’s Atlantic City bubble hit the Taj Mahal, affecting 3000 workers.
The closure timeline starts on October 9th:
All registered hotel guest must check out no later than noon on Oct. 9
and
Comp dollars can be redeemed at Trump Taj Mahal until 11:59 p.m. on Oct. 9. All balances after this time will have no further value.
Arielle Brousse, daughter of a pianist and waitress who were caught up in the bubble, has a beautifully written piece at Vox.com:
Trump has said time and again that the present-day failures in Atlantic City have nothing to do with him, merely because he’s gone now. But it was his gamble that blew up the region to this degree in the first place. It was his promises that attracted thousands of workers and their families to my hometown, building developments, shopping malls, and schools to accommodate the new community that was to serve Trump’s personal seaside empire. We’re still by the boardwalk, but we’re now treading water.
Thousands of people have lost their jobs due to the ripple effects of his early mismanagement. Another 2,848 will join their ranks next week when the Taj finally closes, and the city’s unemployment rate — already among the highest in the nation — will skyrocket.
What does the presidential hopeful have to say about the people who helped build his name, the people he so spectacularly failed? What words of inspiration does our would-be leader offer the broken city he left behind?
He tells us: He’s smart to have gotten out when he did.
It completely destroys the entire basis of his candidacy. Every voter in America should read it.