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City<\/b>, which he deemed cleaner and better-maintained than many on the Las Vegas Strip<\/b>. No, he was talking about the operating profits of the surviving casinos, many of which are skyrocketing as the market goes through the process of right sizing itself. The only exception was Carl Icahn<\/b>‘s Tropicana Atlantic City<\/b>, where operating profit dipped 22% from 2014 to 2015. By contrast, though you wouldn’t know it on a month-by-month basis, the repositioning of Bally’s Atlantic City<\/b> as a grind joint has fattened the bottom line, with operating profit up 77%. The tightest-run ships appear to be Resorts (+525%) and Golden Nugget<\/b> (+396%). Borgata<\/b> (+36%) had the highest dollar volume of profit, while Caesars Atlantic City<\/b> and Harrah’s Resort<\/b> (+39% and +26%) made respectable gains.<\/p>\n![\"donald-trump3\"](\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/donald-trump3-300x232.jpg\")
relationship with China<\/b>. Fortunately for the company, it is headed by former Trump executive Mark Brown<\/b>. In Vietnam<\/b>, casino firm Asian Coast Development<\/b> has just named former Trump Entertainment Resorts<\/b> corporate counsel (and ex-Ivanka Trump<\/b> lawyer) Loretta Pickus<\/b> to its board of directors. However ACDL is hedging its inside-the-Beltway bets by also appointing Tony Podesta<\/b>, brother of Clinton family consigliere<\/i> John Podesta<\/b>, to its board as well. ACDL has a $1 billion megaresort, the Grand Ho Tram<\/b>, in progress south of Ho Chi Minh City<\/b> and would apparently like Washington<\/b> to smile upon the project.<\/p>\n