It was the site of numerous high-profile boxing matches that he attended.īernie Dillon, the events manager at the casino from 1984 to 1991, recalled the glory days of the casino’s past.
Trump, a flamboyant real estate developer before winning the presidency in 2016, opened the casino in 1984. It was left in rubble, with a cloud of billowing dust drifting from the site on a sunny morning. President Donald Trump before his White House tenure, was demolished Wednesday.Īs onlookers cheered, the 39-story hotel with 906 rooms and 8,000 square meters of gambling space for an array of casino games, disappeared in seconds in a controlled implosion. The crumbling Trump Plaza Casino along the oceanfront in Atlantic City, New Jersey, once a key real estate asset of former U.S.