Spectators woke up before dawn to drive to Bader Field, the $10-per-car viewing area. He came to witness another Trump collapse. Using an oceanic reference, he called Trump “a carbuncle on humanity.” For Sorensen, the impeachment trial wasn’t enough. “I’m hoping the implosion here is as spectacular as his implosion has been,” said Rick Sorensen, who drove from Bucks County, Pa., in a car adorned with a “Resistance” bumper sticker. That Trumpian symbolism hung heavy in the cold air as the last building in town with his name on it was blown to rubble with 3,000 sticks of dynamite. The Trump name was officially vanquished Wednesday from the town that brought the former president so much fame, fortune, and failure, as the long crumbling Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in the heart of Atlantic City was finally imploded.ĭonald Trump’s three Atlantic City casinos all ultimately fell into bankruptcy and were sold, but after he opened Trump Plaza, his first, in 1984, his name became entwined with this resort town on the ocean.
