' Man, am I Hot or What!? I mean Hot like, H-O-T hot! Everything I Touch is hot! Things get hot even if I just 'think' about it. Look at me already! My flaxen... hair is hot, my orange glowing skin is hot, my beady little Eyes are Hot, my little Hands are Hot, my Hot is hot! Did I mention that my 'brand' is hot? Yeah, you see, a 'brand' Has to be Hot, or it's nothing. And I'm not nothing. I'm Something! A Hot something. Just winning the Presidency, well Actually just by virtue of getting those snappy Electorial College votes, it does not 'matter' that She has nearly 2 Million more popular votes than I, has made my brand hotter! And you know what, I really don't care if Hellory Has received nearly Two Million popular votes more than I got. People still love me enough to follow me right off a cliff, right Off!
And another thing, you know what I just found out? Listen to This crazy 'news'! There's no laws that prevent me from running my 'personal empire' right alongside my Presidential empire. I get to run them Both at the same time. All my personal holding will increase in value like nobodys business! I will take advantage of this windfall and become the richest man alive! My Kingdom, all my kingdom, and I'm the 'King'!! For a King...errr..a President that is, which I soon Really will be, there's no such thing as a 'conflict of Interest'! None, nada, zero, zilch! Whoa! Who woulda guessed! I'm actually lawless, above the law, conflict Free, I answer to No one, and yet, Everyone to Me. I can even make up a whole bunch of new 'Ethic laws' for the White House. Imagine That! This is like putting the 'Fox' in charge of the chicken coup!! Thank you my faithful 'Trum-pets' for 'throwing' your valuable votes my way! I always say, 'a fool and his votes are soon parted'. All my mini-me's will be conflict free! Which is great because it looks like All of them, are dragging a ton of 'baggage' and dirty 'laundry' behind them. I know that all my faithful voters out there will be happy with That one! Hey, how about those filthy 'rumors' about my BFF-FWB's Bannon, and Session! Where in the world do these lying scumbag reporters get all those lies? How dare they spread vicious lies about my sweet friends! I know, because Bannon told me so, that he doesn't even Read those Alt-Right, what Ever that is, newspapers, or what Ever they are, let alone condone what they might, or might not print. 'Alt-Right', what Is that, some sort of new 'turn' signal or somethintg?? He told me that he has been mistaken for someone Else and does not even Know those people! Hey, I Know That feeling alright! And Session, shoot, he loves people of All colours, just like I have recently learned to do. Why, if I 'thought' for even one little bitty second that my BFF's were a racist, an Islamophobic, a male chauvinist, race baiter, a hate monger, or a conspiracy theorist like Myself, why, I'd fire them so fast their bells would ring Ding Dong! I wouldn't want someone like That around me too much at all, practically, sorta. I'd just find some other job for them to do. Out of sight, out of the publics Mind.
This is a great turn of events for a great American 'resource' as myself. Can you imagine being President, and not having to follow Any rules that everyone Else must follow? Hey, I never follow rules anyway! I just make up my Own or exploit the ones that are already there. You know, like paying tax's, ethics, and crazy stuff like That. Ethics!?? What the heck does That have to do with being a President? I Never promised Anyone that I'd be 'ethical' or transparant. You think that Putin follows any of that claptrap? That Tax thing was Always a great one to exploit for Sure! No need to stop now! I am absolutly un-stoppable! Un-touchable! Everyone is afraid of me, Everyone is in my 'pocket' of fear. No one even 'dare's' say mean, and hurtful lies about me. From now On, everyone will say only 'True' things about me...or they will be So sorry because I will make them cry like little female reporter, which I have Always said are the worst kind, especially One in particular! Reporters are vile, disgusting rodents! Well, gotta run, gotta find some more 'loopholes' to take advantage of, and learn how to be a President that only I can admire. Politics, and Life in America will Never be the same again. I will singlehandely turn America upside down, and inside out, and render it into something of my own making, and I shall Not be swayed nor stopped by a bunch of crybabies who liked America the way it used to be before I came prancing along. When one (me) is a quasi 'dictator', one, (Me) can do as one, (Me) please's with one's (mine) fiefdom, and America has just willingly turned itself over to my greedy hands to do with as I please. Thank you again my faithful 'Trum-pet' voters, I'm sure you are more than 'pleased' with my progress so far, I'm doing all the very things you 'wish' me to do, and even More, and stay tuned, there's more to come..and all because of You, because we 'speak' the same 'language', and you bought my 'snake oil'!
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And another thing, you know what I just found out? Listen to This crazy 'news'! There's no laws that prevent me from running my 'personal empire' right alongside my Presidential empire. I get to run them Both at the same time. All my personal holding will increase in value like nobodys business! I will take advantage of this windfall and become the richest man alive! My Kingdom, all my kingdom, and I'm the 'King'!! For a King...errr..a President that is, which I soon Really will be, there's no such thing as a 'conflict of Interest'! None, nada, zero, zilch! Whoa! Who woulda guessed! I'm actually lawless, above the law, conflict Free, I answer to No one, and yet, Everyone to Me. I can even make up a whole bunch of new 'Ethic laws' for the White House. Imagine That! This is like putting the 'Fox' in charge of the chicken coup!! Thank you my faithful 'Trum-pets' for 'throwing' your valuable votes my way! I always say, 'a fool and his votes are soon parted'. All my mini-me's will be conflict free! Which is great because it looks like All of them, are dragging a ton of 'baggage' and dirty 'laundry' behind them. I know that all my faithful voters out there will be happy with That one! Hey, how about those filthy 'rumors' about my BFF-FWB's Bannon, and Session! Where in the world do these lying scumbag reporters get all those lies? How dare they spread vicious lies about my sweet friends! I know, because Bannon told me so, that he doesn't even Read those Alt-Right, what Ever that is, newspapers, or what Ever they are, let alone condone what they might, or might not print. 'Alt-Right', what Is that, some sort of new 'turn' signal or somethintg?? He told me that he has been mistaken for someone Else and does not even Know those people! Hey, I Know That feeling alright! And Session, shoot, he loves people of All colours, just like I have recently learned to do. Why, if I 'thought' for even one little bitty second that my BFF's were a racist, an Islamophobic, a male chauvinist, race baiter, a hate monger, or a conspiracy theorist like Myself, why, I'd fire them so fast their bells would ring Ding Dong! I wouldn't want someone like That around me too much at all, practically, sorta. I'd just find some other job for them to do. Out of sight, out of the publics Mind.
This is a great turn of events for a great American 'resource' as myself. Can you imagine being President, and not having to follow Any rules that everyone Else must follow? Hey, I never follow rules anyway! I just make up my Own or exploit the ones that are already there. You know, like paying tax's, ethics, and crazy stuff like That. Ethics!?? What the heck does That have to do with being a President? I Never promised Anyone that I'd be 'ethical' or transparant. You think that Putin follows any of that claptrap? That Tax thing was Always a great one to exploit for Sure! No need to stop now! I am absolutly un-stoppable! Un-touchable! Everyone is afraid of me, Everyone is in my 'pocket' of fear. No one even 'dare's' say mean, and hurtful lies about me. From now On, everyone will say only 'True' things about me...or they will be So sorry because I will make them cry like little female reporter, which I have Always said are the worst kind, especially One in particular! Reporters are vile, disgusting rodents! Well, gotta run, gotta find some more 'loopholes' to take advantage of, and learn how to be a President that only I can admire. Politics, and Life in America will Never be the same again. I will singlehandely turn America upside down, and inside out, and render it into something of my own making, and I shall Not be swayed nor stopped by a bunch of crybabies who liked America the way it used to be before I came prancing along. When one (me) is a quasi 'dictator', one, (Me) can do as one, (Me) please's with one's (mine) fiefdom, and America has just willingly turned itself over to my greedy hands to do with as I please. Thank you again my faithful 'Trum-pet' voters, I'm sure you are more than 'pleased' with my progress so far, I'm doing all the very things you 'wish' me to do, and even More, and stay tuned, there's more to come..and all because of You, because we 'speak' the same 'language', and you bought my 'snake oil'!
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Trump: ‘The president can't have a conflict of interest’
The president-elect also calls the Trump brand 'hotter' since winning the White House.
"The law's totally on my side, the president can't have a conflict of interest,” Trump said in an interview with New York Times editors and writers.
It’s true that federal conflict-of-interest laws exempt the president, and he’ll have the power to change White House ethics rules. But there remains a constitutional ban on accepting payments from foreign governments, as well as anti-corruption laws against bribery and fraud. Enforcing them against the president, however, would probably have to be done through impeachment.
Impeachment seems unlikely while Republicans control Congress. But questions about Trump’s business entanglements, especially overseas, are dominating press coverage of his transition, and nothing he said on Tuesday seemed likely to abate those concerns.
Democrats are already planning to use Trump’s ethical conflicts to make life difficult for his administration. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) plans to introduce a resolution calling on Trump to convert his assets, adopt blind trusts or take other measures to comply with the part of the Constitution that prohibits payments from foreign governments, known as the Emoluments Clause.
“He should provide the American people with clarity and certainty that he will in no way, shape, or form use the office of the President to advance his substantial personal fortune,” Cardin said in a statement.
It’s not just Democrats who are voicing concerns. On Twitter, Rep. Justin Amash, a Michigan Republican, called the president-elect’s foreign dealings “certainly a big deal,” citing Trump’s criticism of the Clinton Foundation.
Trump appeared to give critics more fuel during his sit-down with journalists on Tuesday.
He acknowledged a New York Times report that he encouraged British politician Nigel Farage and his entourage to prevent a wind farm from obstructing the view from Trump's Scottish golf course. "I might have brought it up,” he said.
Norm Eisen, a former ethics lawyer for President Barack Obama, said Trump’s raising the wind farm could have amounted to bribery if he offered any official action in return.
“I sure am curious about what was and was not said in that conversation,” Eisen said.
Trump also told the Times his new luxury hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., is "probably a more valuable asset than it was before.” The Washington Post reported in the past week that foreign diplomats are eager to patronize the hotel to curry the president-elect’s favor.
Trump said the brand, meaning “Trump,” is now “hotter."
Trump said his companies were less important to him than being president, and he "would like to do something” about his business entanglements. But he rejected a suggestion of selling his company, saying it would be "a really hard thing to do, because I have real estate.” It wasn’t obvious why that would be a special impediment.
Instead, Trump said he is handing the operations off to his adult children, as he said during the campaign that he would. But that does little to insulate the president-elect from his business concerns, legal and ethics experts have pointed out, because he would still know what assets he owned and would communicate with the people running them.
“If it were up to some people, I would never, ever see my daughter Ivanka again,” Trump said.
Ivanka Trump has reportedly joined him in conversations with leaders from Argentina and Japan. Her husband, Jared Kushner, had been under consideration for a senior role in the White House, but Trump told the Times’ Maggie Haberman that a “formal role” wasn’t likely.
Historically, officials have put their assets in so-called blind trusts, about which they have no knowledge and over which they have no control. Even The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial page called for Trump to follow suit.
Liquidating Trump’s holdings would present unusual challenges because much of Trump’s business involves licensing his name. It would be impossible to shield Trump from knowing which buildings bear his name, and costly to unwind those licensing agreements.
Besides dealings with foreign countries, Trump’s businesses also have matters before the federal government he’s about to lead. Trump leases his Washington hotel from the General Services Administration, and the National Labor Relations Board is reviewing disputes from a Las Vegas hotel that Trump co-owns. Trump has also said his tax returns are being audited by the IRS (as an excuse for breaking with the tradition of releasing them during the campaign).
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