Vera Coking, 87, the resolute and feisty elderly Atlantic city resident who refused to allow Donald Trump to buy her home so he could build a limousine waiting area and parking lot for his Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, once called Trump “a maggot, a cockroach and a crumb.” Coking’s comments came in the midst of her battle with Trump in 1998, as she was interviewed by The New York Daily News. Coking, almost 70 at the time while Trump was just past 50, added, “If Trump’s thinking I’m gonna die tomorrow, he’s having himself a pipe dream. I’m gonna be here for a long, long time. I’ll stay just to see he’s not getting my house. We’ll be going to his funeral, you can count on that.”
In 2014, Trump said that he offered Coking millions of dollars for her three-story clapboard home, blustering, “She could have lived happily ever after in Palm Beach, Florida; instead, she was an impossible person to deal with.”
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