washington president donald trump businesses say would impractical require customers represent foreign nations identify raise question trump fulfill pledge donate profit overseas governments u.s. treasury umbrella trump organization send pamphlet general managers hotel golf course social club winery own operate trump say would donate profit guests declare represent foreign governments pamphlet send house representatives oversight reform committee response request information trump organization fulfil pledge trump make january put forth policy require guests identify would impede upon personal privacy diminish guest experience brand say pamphlet trump organization trump lawyer sheri dillon white house respond request comment dillon announce january press conference trump would voluntarily donate profit foreign government payments make properties treasury payments foreign governments businesses profit trump draw criticism constitutional ethics experts say put trump violation u.s. constitution ban president receive emoluments foreign governments emoluments typically define context fund gift value seven democratic lawmakers house judiciary committee send republican president letter wednesday ask detail account benefit reward financial otherwise receive foreign governments since take office jan. 20. kuwaiti azerbaijani governments already host events trump international hotel washington d.c. march government accountability office say would check whether trump make payments u.s. treasury profit hotels trump organization pamphlet identify entities foreign governments may operate state-owned aerospace defense bank finance healthcare energy business entities entities may reasonably identifiable foreign government entities therefore may include calculation profit donate pamphlet read elijah cummings top democrat congressional committee receive pamphlet say response trump organization method identify foreign government payments deficient cummings say foreign power would still able provide unconstitutional emoluments trump entities fund control openly affiliate foreign governments payments would track way would hide american public cummings write despite vow trump organization track profit foreign governments