Donald Trump's former casino closes in Atlantic City

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Donald Trump's former casino closes in Atlantic City
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Trump Plaza on Tuesday became the fourth Atlantic City casino to shut down this year. The shuttering of the $2.4 billion Revel, which opened just two years ago, was a surprise, but Trump Plaza had been in decline for years. Donald Trump, who opened the resort in 1984, cut ties several years ago, and last month filed a lawsuit to get his name taken off of it. "It did slip every year," one regular guest said. "This year they had no bedspreads and they totally gave up on the ice machines." Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Harold Maass, The Week US
Harold Maass, The Week US

Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.