Although Trump boasts that he kept squeezing money out of the casinos until the end, thousands of people lost their jobs and dozens of contractors were forced to accept a fraction of what they were owed.
Burdened by high-interest debt, disappointing revenue, and over-expansion-by the early '90s Atlantic City boasted the Trump Plaza, Trump Castle, and Trump Taj Mahal-the casinos started going bankrupt. The collapse of Trump’s casino empire was as dramatic, if not quite as rapid, as its rise.
