Sources

View our full list of the 50+ sources used to create our Trump Casinos infographic below.

Companies & Bankruptcies

• ^ “The Trump Organization”. Wikipedia.
• ^ “The Trump Organization”. trump.com.
• ^“Trump Entertainment Resorts”. Wikipedia.
• ^ “Trump Entertainment Resorts”. trumpcasinos.com
• ^ “Yep, Donald Trump’s companies have declared bankruptcy…more than four times”. Politifact. June 2016.
• ^ “Fact Check: Has Trump declared bankruptcy four or six times?”. Washington Post. September 2016.
• ^ “List of subsidiaries of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, Inc”. sec.gov.
• ^ “How Donald Trump Made Millions Off His Biggest Business Failure”. Fortune. March 2016.
• ^ “Trump Entertainment Resorts files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection”. CNBC. September 2014.
• ^ “Company Overview of Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc.”. Bloomberg.

The Casinos

Trump Plaza

• ^ “Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino”. Wikipedia.
• ^ “Trump Plaza closes, making it official: A third of Atlantic City’s casinos have closed this year”. Washington Post. September 2014.
• ^ “Trump Plaza Casino Sold For Bargain $20m”. Sky News. February 2013.
• ^ “10th and largest casino opens in Atlantic City”. New York Times. May 1984.

Trump’s Castle/Marina

• ^ “Golden Nugget Atlantic City”. Wikipedia.
• ^ “Trump Buys Hilton’s Hotel in Atlantic City”. New York Times. April 1985.
• ^ “Golden Nugget owner reveals details of Trump Marina purchase and $150 million in upgrade”. Press of Atlantic City. February 2015.

Trump Taj Mahal

• ^ “Trump Taj Mahal”. Wikipedia.
• ^ “I Watched a Casino Kill Itself: The Awful Last Nights of Atlantic City’s Taj Mahal”. The Daily Beast. August 2014.
• ^ “Trump’s bad bet: How too much debt drove his biggest casino aground”. Washington Post. January 2016.
• ^ “Trump Taj Mahal closes after years of losses”. USA Today. October 2016.
• ^ “Trump’s Taj - Open at Last, With a Scary Appetite”. New York Times. April 1990.
• ^ “Hard Rock to buy shuttered Trump Taj Mahal, site will remain a casino”. LA Times. May 2017.
• ^ “Trump Taj Mahal sold after losing owner $300m”. Independent. March 2017.
• ^ “Icahn selling Trump Taj Mahal casino to Hard Rock”. CNBC. March 2017.

Trump World’s Fair

• ^ “Trump World’s Fair”. Wikipedia.
• ^ “Trump buys back Regency, now for a casino”. Press of Atlantic City. June 1995.
• ^ “In A.C., Trump World’s Fair still in trouble, even after closing”. Las Vegas Sun. May 2000.

Trump Casino

• ^ “In 1993, Trump promised to make Gary, Indiana, great again — it never happened”. Business Insider UK. September 2016.
• ^ “Trump to sell Gary casino to Majestic Star for $253 million”. nwi.com. November 2005.
• ^ “In Gary, memories of Donald Trump’s casino promises”. IndyStar. April 2016.
• ^ “Evaluation of Riverboat Licensee for Gary, Indiana: Trump Indiana, Inc.”. Center for Urban Policy and the Environment. December 1997.
• ^ “As Trump appeals to black voters, Gary recalls casino deal”. The Big Story. September 2016.

Trump 29 Casino

• ^ “Spotlight 29 Casino”. Wikipedia.
• ^ “How Donald Trump got fired by a California casino”. The Desert Sun. March 2016.
• ^ “Spotlight 29 adds more slots and tables”. 500 Nations. January 2010.
• ^ “Spotlight 29 Casino Fact Sheet”. spotlight29.com. February 2016.
• ^ “Donald Trump’s long history of clashes with Native Americans”. Washington Post. July 2016.

Casino Licensing Around Atlantic City

• ^ “Legal US Gambling Laws”. gamblingonline.com.

Quotes

• ^ “My basic attitude has always been that I want to do what is good for Atlantic City”. Washington Post. January 2016.
• ^ “I also, as I said before, don’t have to use junk bonds. I can use my own funds or I can use regular bank borrowings, so I can build at the prime rate”. Washington Post. January 2016.
• ^ “Will the Taj work? It can’t miss. It’s like spitting and missing the floor”. New York Times. April 1990.
• ^ “When they approved gambling in Pennsylvania, I said, it’s time to get out!”. The Daily Beast. August 2014.
• ^ “I made a lot of money in Atlantic City. I almost feel guilty about it, but I made a lot of money in Atlantic City and I got out”. The Daily Beast. August 2014

Other Casino Closures

Revel

• ^ “TEN Atlantic City”. Wikipedia.
• ^ “Glenn Straub wins right to keep gaming report on himself secret - for now”. philly.com. January 2017.
• ^ “Revel casino reveals new name and logo. Is it a perfect TEN?”. nj.com. September 2016.
• ^ “New target date set for grand opening of rebranded Revel in Atlantic City”. Philly Voice. January 2017.

Atlantic Club

• ^ “The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel”. Wikipedia.
• ^ “3 years later, no known plan for shuttered Atlantic Club casino-hotel”. nj1015.com. January 2017.

Showboat

• ^ “Showboat Atlantic City”. Wikipedia.
• ^ “Showboat Official Website”. showboathotelac.com.
• ^ “Atlantic City’s Showboat is reopening — but without casino”. The Seattle Times. June 2016.
• ^ “Atlantic City’s former Showboat casino reopens as hotel”. The Morning Call. July 2016.

General Trump & Atlantic City

• ^ "How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions”. New York Times. June 2016.
• ^ “Trump and Atlantic City: the lessons behind the demise of his casino empire”. The Guardian. September 2016.
• ^ “If Trump Runs America Like His Atlantic City Casinos, We’re All Doomed”. Konbini. September 2016.
• ^ “The Death and Life of Atlantic City”. The New Yorker. September 2015.
• ^ “Atlantic City, New Jersey”. Wikipedia.