My quest to find Pokemon GO trainers at Trump Tower

By Cecilia D'Anastasio
Updated July 18 2016 - 9:18am, first published 8:53am
Trump Tower may be a PokeStop, but nobody inside gave any indication of knowing what a Beedrill even is.
Trump Tower may be a PokeStop, but nobody inside gave any indication of knowing what a Beedrill even is.

Over the weekend, the Trump campaign finally acknowledged Pokemon GO. Finally. The Republican frontrunner's newest anti-Clinton smear ad made a nod to Niantic's hit app ("Crooked Hillary No!"), probably explained to him by his interns. Given Pokemon GO's apparent resonance with the The Donald's campaign, I wondered how popular the game was in the gilded palace of Trumpland. So, I went up to New York's Trump Tower looking for fellow Pokemon trainers. And found nobody. Not one person.

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