The President and Vice President are exempted from conflict of interest laws. The reason for this is interesting -- the Constitution sets out the requirements f

The President and Vice President are exempted from conflict of interest laws. The reason for this is interesting -- the Constitution sets out the requirements for being president, so the concern was that the laws would be challenged as unconstitutional and invalidated entirely if they applied to POTUS. Of course, at the time presidents were in the habit of divesting themselves of their conflicts.