twin river casino to bristol county house

The Trump facility would have been twice the size of Twin River Casino, which offers a 108 table games and only now is building a hotel which will have an estimated 200 rooms. The Trump facility as proposed in 2006 included 500 hotel rooms, convention center, a full-service spa, restaurants and entertainment.

The Trump plan was to build a 120,000 mega-casino with 5,000 slots and 200 gaming tables. Casinos in Connecticut were setting records every month in revenue. “You’re fired,” was a national catch phrase. Trump in 2006 was at the height of his TV popularity – The Apprentice was in its second season. On the other side was Harrah’s Entertainment, the mega-casino company (now named Caesar’s) who in 2006 had teamed with the Narragansett Indian Tribe to build Rhode Island's first full-service destination casino.Īnd the decision-makers in Rhode Island were a quirky range of Rhode Island officials - some of who are now lobbyists, in jail or dead. Trump’s casino companies were just one-year out of bankruptcy. It was never clear if Trump’s efforts were honest or he was serving as a straw man for the Connecticut casinos interests to block Harrah’s coming into the market.

On one side was Trump, the New York real estate developer and star of the then-new NBC TV show “The Apprentice.” In Rhode Island, the battle emerged between two mega-casino companies. It's just cool and maybe we'd get celebrities.' 'I mean, come on, Donald Trump coming to Johnston, Rhode Island? That would be like him going to Nowheresville, Iowa. 'It's awesome!' said Jessica Xavier, 26, a bartender at Corner Pocket Billiards & Grill in Johnston, in a February 2006 Boston Globe article. GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE - SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST It was just ten years ago when Trump lobbied the Rhode Island General Assembly to block Harrah’s Entertainment’s plan for an exclusive gaming facility, as Trump wanted to build his mega-casino in Johnston, Rhode Island. Today, Donald Trump is leading the most recent CNN Presidential Poll and could be America’s 45th President of the United States.

Twin river casino to bristol county house