Even Pokémon seekers won't set foot in Trump Tower
Pokémon Go has completely overtaken New York City — for as far as the eye can see, there are glittering Pokéstops with lures to draw rare and unusual Pokémon into the hands of trainers. (If this is all gobbledygook to you, click here.) Perhaps nowhere in the city is more overrun than Central Park, which lies just steps from Trump Tower.
But despite its status as a Pokéstop, Trump Tower is virtually a Pokémon wasteland. When one Kotaku reporter ventured to the landmark to look for fellow trainers, she found… none at all:
Men with shiny shoes, teenaged girls, conspicuous tourists, women with Prada shopping bags, and whoever happened to be outside when the torrential downpour began all collected in the building's foyer, [staring] at their phones. I stalked the perimeter of the crowd. Tinder, yes. Texting and Facebook, all right. No sight of the Pokémon logo.[...] I went up and down a half-dozen flights of escalators. Nothing. Back on the second floor, peering over the Starbucks customers' shoulders, the weirdness of the situation hit me. Hundreds of people walked in and out, faces glued to their phones, but not a single Pokémon trainer. I descended the escalators and ran back outside, frantically hoping to find common ground with anybody at all. [Kotaku]
If Donald Trump ever finds the time, he is going to be very disappointed to learn he has no one to play Pokémon Go with at home.
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