No he wasn ' t . Holy shit dude . Icing a kicker just means you mess with his buildup to the kick and give him more time to think by extending the time . A delay of game penalty would have caused the exact same effect , but also moved the ball further from the posts , making the kick harder . <| sep |> Copypasting my comment from aboveIt ' s not that simple . Yes , the President is legally exempt from Title 18 Section 208 of the U . S . Code , which is the primary financial conflict of interest law . However the President is not exempt from the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution , which bans any U . S . government employee from taking gifts or compensation of any kind from foreign governments ometerstatements 2016 nov 16 r u d y g i u l i a n i g i u l i a n i p r e s i d e n t t rumpwillbeexemptconflicti . The only way for the President to get around this clause is to have Congress specifically vote to approve each gifttransaction , but I think even that has a monetary limit . The ways in which Trump ' s businesses currently accept compensation from foreign governments are quite numerous . For example , he just opened a hotel in DC whose primary clientele will be foreign dignitaries and diplomats t r u m p s n ewdchotelforeigndiplomats . So one could argue with this example alone that Trump would be in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution on day 1 of his administration . Now the mechanism for actually enforcing such a restriction on Trump is an entirely different story . Typically we would rely on Congress to do something about it , but it ' s very unlikely that a Republicanled Congress will do much of anything to get in the way of President Trump . So this article is calling on the electors to use their Constitutionally granted powers to intervene before Trump is officially confirmed .