The last ten days

[Egbert]

You still read newspapers?

Yes.

Unfortunately newspapers seem to be on the way to extinction. Every year circulation falls and the quality of the articles declines.

More useless stories about celebrities and less real news. :

[Elok]

Profits from foriegn activities to go to U.S. Treasury.

The rest sounds like hooey, easily circumvented--but this is disturbing. I hadn't read this. The idea of divestment is to decrease the degree of entanglement. Government funds should not come from a man's private business activities.

[ZEE]

Elok is a nerd.

[Ben Kenobi]

I'm grateful that ISIS (as a state) is no more, and thus Trump's campaign promises of basically invading Syria and Iraq again is probably off the table.

Yeah, never mind the fact that they still occupy half of Syria.

[Aeson]

Shhhh ... don't tell Trump that.

[pchang]

I see talk in the newspapers that Michelle might run for POTUS in 2020.

Is that viable?

Is she even thinking off standing or are people simply suggesting she might?

She says no

[pchang]

The rest sounds like hooey, easily circumvented--but this is disturbing. I hadn't read this. The idea of divestment is to decrease the degree of entanglement. Government funds should not come from a man's private business activities.

Ummm, income tax?

[Elok]

Is an entirely different animal. Taxes are impartially skimmed off all revenue sources or transactions meeting certain criteria. That's very different from one man's personal business funneling all its profits into government coffers (at the behest of its owner, who also happens to control the government). It's a drop in the bucket in terms of questionable stuff Trump has done, but it sets a bad precedent to have industry and government so intertwined.

[BeBMan]

We don't have to "wait and see" what Trump is going to be like. It's not like he's been shy about telling us who he is, over and over again, for decades. Yes, there is some remote, non-zero probability that upon his inauguration he will undergo a complete and total personality transformation, but why exactly should any of us consider that a reasonable possibility?

Judging from his recent press conference either he does not change as pres, or that he holds it back until he's pres officially to keep us in suspense

[rah]

Yeah, I guess many were hoping that he would evolve into being a tad more presidential, but it isn't looking very good on that front.

[The Mad Monk]

The rest sounds like hooey, easily circumvented--but this is disturbing. I hadn't read this. The idea of divestment is to decrease the degree of entanglement. Government funds should not come from a man's private business activities.

I agree. ABOLISH THE INCOME TAX!!!

[Gertrude]

Seven days until ........... (we need a really BIG mushroom cloud icon)

[DaShi]

Interesting restrictions that Trump has installed on his companies that he has now isolated himself from. Ethics Officer and Compliance officer must sign off on any deal. Only domestic deals can be made. Profits from foriegn activities to go to U.S. Treasury. Seems like people may have underestimated his resolve in seperating his business from himself.

PLATO, I have a lot of stuff that I'd like to sell you. You will be very happy with these purchases. PM me.

[pchang]

I wonder if the primary qualification for Ethics and Compliance officer is their ability to say yes.

[Uncle Sparky]

To paraphrase Steven Wright-

99% of Trump's supporters give all the rest a bad name...

[Egbert]

I wonder if the primary qualification for Ethics and Compliance officer is their ability to say yes.

A "Chief Ethics Officer" can be just window dressing or somebody with no clout at all.

I reckon ethics is the joint and several responsibility of everyione in an organisation whether it be a huge government or a tiny little place.

However ...........

Anyway pchang you might find this Forbes article on ethics of some interest:

http://www.forbes.com/2006/10/23/leadership-ethics-hp-lead-govern-cx_hc_1023ethics.html