Trump Plaza to Implode Just Days After Biden Inauguration, Deemed a 'Public Safety Hazard'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Trump Plaza Casino tower in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is set for implosion on January 29, just days after President-elect Joe Biden's presumptive Inauguration Day.

Critics of President Donald Trump and his ongoing "voter fraud" claims are citing the scheduled January demolition of the 39-story tower as a metaphor for his own behavior since Election Day. Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small announced an end to years of financial wrangling over the former Trump casino, which opened in 1984 before closing permanently in 2014. Atlantic City officials deemed the Trump Plaza structure on the famous Boardwalk a "public safety hazard" last March.

The building's demolition will mean there are no more major Trump properties left in Atlantic City. The New York Times reported Sunday that Trump's return to the family real estate business will be met with lingering financial problems and likely layoffs.

Former Democratic Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill shared a video Sunday of an Atlantic City resident proclaiming, "Go Biden" as she stood next to the wrapped and netted structure set for implosion. "There is something poetic that the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City is scheduled for implosion about a week after President Biden takes office," the MSNBC contributor quipped.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-plaza-to-implode-just-days-after-biden-inauguration-deemed-a-public-safety-hazard/ar-BB1aOMNy?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP

[Blue Owl]

1. Someone should make an event spectacle outta this

Project Donny's fascist face on that condemned thing before it collapses

[Hassin Bin Sober]

23. Just came here to say this!

[Hiawatha Pete]

24. +1. An artist's rendition of what the demolition will look like:

[Blue Owl]

25. That is a beautiful sight, Hiawatha Pete!

And a nice prelude to the demolition of the American Nazi's gaudy affront to architecture

[Hiawatha Pete]

26. Love your idea, Blue Owl!

Project mango mussolini's big dopey face onto the plaza right before demolition. Icing on the cake: Make it be his singsong speech in autotune, complete with sound:
https://ww.democraticunderground.org/100211831480

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. I had to look and see if this was Borowich or The Onion

[dhill926]

11. haha..yep....

[PatSeg]

16. Its like the closing scene of a movie

The implosion being the visual symbolism of the end of a corrupt and doomed life. I can almost hear the music in my head. It will be one of those movies where the audience stands up and cheers!

[FightingIrish]

3. I hope it's televised.

They could have a lottery for the pleasure of pushing the button on the detonator.

[rzemanfl]

5. Someone should sell pieces, like they did with the Berlin Wall. n/t

[Beartracks]

9. Kinda surprised Trump is not already hawking that. "Trump Chunks." n/ t

[Baked Potato]

18. Good idea for a charity drive! I'd buy a chunk for a good cause!

[llmart]

14. Naw...

just let Hillary have the pleasure.

[George II]

21. The DNC should buy it and hold the lottery as a fundraiser.

[nebby70]

4. If we all chip in a few bucks...

... can we get them to move the date up?? like 9 days?? say around noon???...
... just saying.........

[mr_lebowski]

6. I was thinking the same ... is it really that hard to move it up 9 measly days?

C'mon, guys!

[kirkuchiyo]

7. Maybe he'd like to watch

from inside....

[underpants]

8. Sued in 2014 - no longer has his name on it.

Billionaire developer Carl Icahn has owned the property since 2016 and the casino operations closed in September 2014. Trump Organization bankruptcies dating back as far as 1992 plagued the operation with financial troubles for years and city officials said the increasingly dilapidated building had become an eyesore. Citing disrepair, Trump in 2014 sued Trump Entertainment Resorts, which he no longer controlled, and demanded to have his name removed from the Trump Plaza building.

[VMA131Marine]

10. Wait! This building was so badly and cheaply built

that it’s falling apart after only 36 years?

[TexasTowelie]

12. Probably constructed from steel

made in Chy-na.

[SeattleVet]

15. That's what happens when you have a reputation of not paying contractors...

...and when you (allegedly) use mob-supplied concrete, steel, and labor.

[disalitervisum]

13. Many people are saying that our best and greatest real estate developer

in the history of the world is also the best and greatest accumulator of building code violation venues, the likes of which nobody has ever seen.

[louis-t]

17. Please put his name back on it before you blow it up.

Thank you.

[Nasruddin]

19. That date

Is there any way we can move that implosion date up a bit ... say a week?

[George II]

20. I saw that a few months ago and was hoping the city could move it up a couple of months to last week

[George II]

22. Can they do that to everything with the trump name that is deemed a "safety hazard"?