The Dark Truth About Trump Hotel Las Vegas

“There are zero slot machines inside the 64-story gold tower with the president’s name on it, in the one city on Earth where the casino is the whole point. The story you’ve heard says Nevada refused him a license. There’s no evidence that ever happened. In February 2004, Nevada’s gaming regulators approved him unanimously, and the Las Vegas Sun headline read “Gaming panel licenses Trump.” The next year, he broke ground on a tower with no casino anyway. His own son gave the real answer on the record in 2013, and it has nothing to do with a license. It’s about what you look like when you walk through a lobby. This is the story of a tower built to keep ordinary people out, the $100 million deal that turned 300 of its rooms into Hilton timeshares, the sales presentations running inside it right now, and the resale board where owners are trying to give their weeks away while the annual fees climb past $5,000 a year. Everyone above you in this structure got paid on the way up and keeps getting paid on the way down. The people who bought a week are the only ones who can’t leave. Watch to the end and you’ll know the one question to ask if you’re ever sitting in that sales room.”