The reason people believe he should give up his business is because there is a conflict of interest. He does business in countries where many of the corporations his company could deal with are owned or operated by the government at least in part. You can't be sure he is making a decision that is best for the people of the US if he stands to personally gain from it.

Add to the fact he won't be releasing his taxes so the American people won't have a clear picture of who he owes money to or who owes money to him this makes for a very uncomfortable situation.

"The reason people believe he should give up his business is because there is a conflict of interest. He does business in countries where many of the corporations his company could deal with are owned or operated by the government at least in part. You can't be sure he is making a decision that is best for the people of the US if he stands to personally gain from it."

Are you aware that all profits from his foreign holdings are going to the federal treasury?

If not, rethink.

I am not aware of that. I am aware of a pledge Trump made to donate profits when foreign governments use his hotels. That pledge does not apply to all profits from his foreign holdings.

Is this in perpetuity? Deals made today will impact profits in 10 years time!

> I can't believe there are so many people here suggest DJT should totally give up his business. This is basically the same as saying no business person should run for the president,

Being president of the USA is a big deal, he needs to be willing to set aside his pride and company. Sell it for pieces, invest those in a blind trust or index stocks. At least the foreign properties he can buy them back afterwards. Even Carter appointed an independent trustee to run his peanut farm.

> so just leave it only to career politicians.

What's with the hate for career politicians, would you hire something out to be programmed by someone who had just taken an introductory python course?

Besides that Trump is worse on corruption, worse on lying, worse on demagoguery then most career politicians. Which is a fairly large accomplishment.

> The hates toward DJT are crazy.

He earns it.

It's so the business can't be used as leverage against him when making decisions for the country he was elected to represent.

Do you really want a leader who is using their power to profit only themselves?

There's this crazy thing called "money" he can exchange it for. If he does his job right, that alone should be a worthwhile investment!

>This is basically the same as saying no business person should run for the president, so just leave it only to career politicians.

Damn straight. We want business out of our government. The government belongs to everyone, not to billionaires.

>>Gets lots of downvotes for no reason

Not for no reason. You are being downvoted because you apparently don't understand what a conflict of interest is, and yet have the audacity to suggest that the criticisms towards Trump are "crazy".

Is a "business person" going to be so dreadfully harmed by placing his business interests under the control of someone else, without knowing the holdings so as to avoid creating the impression that he is using the Presidency for his own financial goals, for all of four or eight years? Will he merely have to go back to a pile of money instead of a bunch of hotels afterwards? The horror.

This isn't "crazy hate", this is wanting to know who is pulling my President's strings.

Isn't serving one's country by being president worth some sacrifice? If preserving the image of the office is not worth his sacrifices, why the hell did he run for office?