Trump's Reality Woes

He does the firing, but his battered casino empire suggests he's a better pitchman than manager

In a recent episode of the hit TV show The Apprentice, Donald Trump challenged a gaggle of fawning dealmaker wannabes to boost revenue at his Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, N.J. Eager to impress, Trump's pupils got right to work. But they might have just as quickly asked, Who the heck is Trump to judge? After all, his casino empire has been losing money for years.

So much money, it was revealed last week, that auditing firm Ernst & Young warned of "substantial doubt" that the publicly traded gaming company run by Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts could continue as...

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