President Donald Trump is so disastrously incompetent that he managed to bankrupt a casino in Atlantic City. Now from the oval office, he tries to start again – in Las Vegas.
In June 2025, Las Vegas welcomed 400,000 less visitors that in June 2024 – more than 11% noses. International arrivals have plunged, as is the occupation of the hotel industry.
This did not happen by accident. Trump spent months upsetting the neighbor in northern America and a tourist source of key vegas. He suggested that Canada should become the 51st American state And called his Prime Minister at the time “Governor Justin Trudeau of the Grand State of Canada”. He then said He did not “drag”, Lining of this situation would make Trump prices “completely disappears. “”
The new Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney releasedSaying that his country “is not for sale” and reject the fantasy of Trump as laughable and offensive. Even Trump’s ambassador to Canada warned Rhetoric was unprecedented toxic to relationships. And in tourism, words have consequences. Canada is America N ° 1 Source of foreign visitors. Insult them enough and they stop coming.
Trump prices on Canadian products have transformed insults into politics, triggering a full -fledged trade war. The result: Automobile passages fell 37% in annual sliding in July and air arrivals dropped by 26%. Right’s franchise sales along the border have been reduced almost in two, destitute millions in expenses. Indeed, each 1% drop in international trips costs in the United States $ 1.8 billion in export income per year – Money which feeds jobs and generates tax revenue. July 2025 marked the Seventh consecutive month From trafficking in traffic, investigations showing Canadians now feel significantly unwelcome.
And when the largest tranche of your dry foreign tourism market is felt everywhere. In July, arrivals from Germany were down 14.7% compared to last July. China’s arrivals dropped by 13.8% and Switzerland by 12.7%. Veromers abroad now direct customers to anywhere, but Trump America. Tourism income should go from $ 181 billion in 2024 to $ 169 billion in 2025, $ 12.5 billion in the economy.
And it could be the tip of the iceberg. A Reuters analysis Underlying data suggests that the drop in tourism could cost up to $ 71 billion in the United States gross domestic product.
In Las Vegas, the damage is personal. Empty casinos mean shorter discrepancies, cut hours and layoffs. Ted Papageorge, secretary-treasurer of the Culinary Union, calls for decreasing tourism of the city the “Trump crisis”.
“If you tell the whole world that they are not welcome, they will not come”, he said Time magazine. “The standard of living of Las Vegas is southern California. What people say to our members is that crazy raids and prices and this uncertainty, (make) people to withdraw. ”
At the end of July job On Truth Social, Trump called the United States “the” hottest country “and most respected in the world”.
The figures tell a different story. Casinos in difficulty in cities in difficulty, its heritage is the same: reckless mismanagement, xenophobia and empty chairs where excitement was seated. The lights of the band of vegas still sparkle, but thanks to Trump, the seats become empty.
