President-elect Donald Trump’s team submitted an ethics plan guiding the conduct of its members throughout the transition period that does not appear to include provisions for one key member of the team: the president himself.

President-elect Donald Trump is bucking some of the ethics and security protocols in the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 — opting to privately bankroll Trump’s transition effort and thus far avoiding an agreement with the FBI for background checks.

Despite beating the odds and becoming only the second president to serve in nonconsecutive terms (Grover Cleveland being the other), President-Elect Donald Trump is set to make dubious stock market history when he takes office for his second term.

The president-elect’s team said it would disclose donors’ names and not take donations from foreigners, but it isn’t legally bound to adhere to those promises.

The Trump transition team's code of ethics appears to carve out an exception for a specific person, CNN reported Wednesday: Donald Trump himself. "'There does not appear to be a provision addressing the requirement for the president-elect to address his conflicts of interest,

WASHINGTON - US President-elect Donald Trump's transition team said Monday it had signed a long-stalled memorandum of understanding with the White House to pave the way for the Republican to take office in January.