Voting with their feet: Traffic plummets at Trump casinos and hotels

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http://peoplesworld.org/voting-with-their-feet-traffic-plummets-at-trump-casinos-and-hotels/

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Women driving the drop-off

Dig a little deeper into the data and you find a fact which really shouldn't be all that surprising: women are driving the drop-off in market share for Trump properties. At Trump sites in blue states, the share of women visiting last month sunk almost 30 percent. Given that seven in ten American women have an unfavorable opinion of the Republican nominee, it makes perfect sense that they would be leading the way in shifting their dollars away from any business with the Trump name plastered across it.

It's not just Foursquare that is reporting such dismal numbers for Trump properties, though. Another firm, Priceonomics, which owns a hotel-booking search engine, says that in the first quarter of 2016, room reservations at Trump hotels were down by an astonishing 59 percent. This at a time when bookings for hotels overall were up. Trump properties are actually bucking the positive trend for the hotel sector.

Worst hit were the Trump hotels in New York (down 74 percent), Las Vegas (down 71 percent), Chicago (down 31 percent), and Atlantic City (down 17 percent). North of the border, Canadians and foreign tourists also appeared to be snubbing Trump, with his Toronto hotel seeing a 47 percent decline in bookings.

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News also broke Thursday that the owner of Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, the GOP nominee's billionaire friend Carl Icahn, was closing the casino permanently at the end of summer and eliminating 3,000 jobs with it.

Icahn's managers blamed the striking workers of UNITE-HERE Local 54 for the casino's failure. The numbers discussed above, however, suggest that the real problems go straight to the top - all the way to the name on the sign.

[barbtries]

1. in 2013

my sister stayed at the trump hotel in vegas. i knew then i would never pay to stay in one of his properties.

the only down side to this story is the hapless investors who will lose their shirts. but then again maybe they should have known better.

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. and the hapless employees who will lose their jobs, maybe their houses. n/t

[barbtries]

22. you are right.

the real victims.

[wildeyed]

2. I was wondering about that.

I went to Vegas recently and had a negative, visceral reaction to the Trump hotel there. I never liked the guy, but I never thought much about him either. Now I would go out of my way not to patronize one of his establishments. I hope this whole thing blows up in his smarmy face and sinks him financially.

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5. Same here.

That gold monstrosity just seemed like an extension of his ego, but I hadn't thought about him much in years.

I wonder if he ran for President to try to market himself? Evidently, it backfired, bigtime.

[wildeyed]

7. I hope he loses every penny.

His wife will leave him and he will have to go live with one of his odious spawn. He will shuffle to the bus stop when he wants to go places, muttering under his breath. He will smell like old man breath, dandruff, and broken dreams. His shirt will be not quite clean and have ring around the collar.

That is the future he should have if there is any justice in the world. Might make him a better person, too, if he had to rub elbows with us little people.

[Chellee]

19. You've given this some thought. ;)

I don't suppose you stopped to wonder whether us little people want to rub elbows with him?

[Jopin Klobe]

3. It's true ... it's all the Unions' fault ...

... they have the unmitigated gall to demand an American living wage because they're Americans living and working and paying their fair share of their America taxes in America ...

... Icahn is a company/jobs butcher and a CRAPitalist ghoul ...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. Told ya....

His name is going to come off of these buildings.

[ailsagirl]

6. Thank God

The trashiest, tackiest, most vulgar, raffish, most garish buildings I've ever seen-- inside and out.

What an ego-- two foot high letters spelling out his name.

[PatSeg]

8. He is like a caricature

of a rich flamboyant man, a real life McScrooge McDuck. His buildings are so ugly and tacky with "Trump" plastered all over everything. Sometimes it is hard to believe he is a real person.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. The inspiration for this...

[PatSeg]

12. Oh yes!!!

Perfect!

[Hekate]

10. It's the stench

[63splitwindow]

11. GREAT! Hitting The Con in his wallet is something he will actually feel!

[7962]

13. THIS will piss him off more than losing the election nt

[Equinox Moon]

14. He is bleeding money with this and

with the law suits for racketeering, the fines are tripled. He has a an actual trial coming up.

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16. I can't wait for the trial!

I hope it is soon...!

[rurallib]

18. late November unfortunately

Nov. 28.

Sure wish it was during the campaign

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20. Boo, me too.

Well, it will just be dessert after beating him earlier in the month (knock wood.)

[47of74]

15. I wouldn't stay in one of his stinking shit piles of hotels even if you paid me.

And if anyone tried to make me I'd tell them to go straight to hell, sit on a red hot coal, and wait for me until it snows.

[vkkv]

17. I (Heart) it !!!