One of the biggest problems dogging the incoming Trump administration would be Donald Trump's vast business holdings conflicting with his performance as president.

In the week after the election, the Washington Post reported that Trump-D.C. hotel officials had done outreach to local foreign embassies.

Trump met with Indian businessmen who work with his brand.

Ivanka Trump took part in a state meeting with the Japanese prime minister.

An Argentinian reporter said that Trump and his daughter had requested a business favor on a phone call with the Argentinian president. By the way, the favor was later granted. Trump himself told the New York Times that he'd be capable of running his business alongside his presidency. All of that was kind of disquieting. But Trump actually understands the problem now. He tweeted this morning,

quote, I will be holding a major news conference in New York City with my children on December 15th to

discuss the fact that I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running

the country in order to all caps make America great again. While I am not mandated to do this

under the law, I feel it is visually important as president to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses. Hence, legal documents are being crafted, which take me completely out of business operations. The presidency is a far more important task. So here's the deal. This isn't enough. We still need to know exactly how these legal documents will shape up. Is Trump giving up his ownership stake? There's no indicator he is. Will his children continue to run the business and yet continue to also advise him in his

role as president? That would actually maintain the conflict. Will Trump liquidate his

businesses? Really, really unlikely. In a joint statement, Richard Painter, who's George W's ethics

lawyer, and Norman Elson, who's Obama's ethics lawyer, they said Trump's continued business

interest would, quote, sometimes conflict with the public interest and constantly

raise questions. But, but, at least Trump recognizes the problem. That's at least half the

battle. We can actually hope that he'll be cautious enough to silo his businesses in political

interests, preventing the taint of his scandal from destroying his White House before it launches.

Good for Trump. Now let's pray that he carries out his pledge. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

All righty. So here we are. Lots to get to. Today we're going to be having on Adam Carolla in just a few

moments to discuss his new movie as a new documentary out called The 24-hour War. I've watched most of it. It is really, really good, really fascinating, and about the American auto industry and about car racing in general. We'll talk to Adam in just a second. But first, we have to say hello to our friends over at Legacy Box. So this is an advertiser I feel very strongly about. It's Legacybox.com slash Ben. The way

LegacyBox works is they allow you to keep all of your memories by basically you send in all

your old films. We're talking reels. We're talking VHS videos. And they convert all of this stuff

to a digital file. They put it on a CD or they put it on a or they put it on a thumb drive for you so you can

...