{"id":5082,"date":"2025-10-16T16:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/5082\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:41:07","slug":"trump-organization-blasts-yonkers-mayor-over-bronx-casino-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/5082\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Organization blasts Yonkers mayor over Bronx casino claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump Organization is pushing back after comments made by Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano about the future of casino development in The Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Spano said Bally\u2019s proposal for a casino at the former Trump Links site in The Bronx stands to benefit from MGM Resorts\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/westchester.news12.com\/sources-mgm-plans-to-pull-out-of-downstate-casino-license-process\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">decision to withdraw its application <\/a>for Empire City Casino. He said Bally\u2019s has a deal with Donald Trump that would pay him an additional $115 million if a casino opens there.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Trump Organization said it had nothing to do with MGM\u2019s decision and called any suggestion otherwise \u201ccompletely false, irresponsible and pure speculation.\u201d The statement added that the mayor may want to focus his energy on improving his own city.<\/p>\n<p>News 12 has reached out to the mayor\u2019s office for comment but has not heard back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump Organization is pushing back after comments made by Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano about the future of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,2026,153,3069,4985,3107,9,24,63,129,131,130,1069],"class_list":["post-5082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-casino","tag-donald-trump","tag-empire-city-casino","tag-mayor-mike-spano","tag-mgm","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}