--- title: Donald Trump Delays Announcement on Business to January description: Donald Trump has postponed a news conference scheduled for Thursday to announce his plan for dealing with his business operations to January canonical: https://time.com/4598673/donald-trump-postpones-business-january/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-13T00:40:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:16:18.226Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Punts Announcement on Future of Businesses og:description: It was initially scheduled for Dec. 15 but now set for January og:url: https://time.com/4598673/donald-trump-postpones-business-january/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt45d2d7556acfd8a0/6988b2a9bc6cfc64eb3df90a/trump_cia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4641 og:image:height: 2611 og:image:alt: President-elect Donald Trump at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Dec. 9, 2016. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Punts Announcement on Future of Businesses twitter:description: It was initially scheduled for Dec. 15 but now set for January twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt45d2d7556acfd8a0/6988b2a9bc6cfc64eb3df90a/trump_cia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Postpones Announcement on Future of His Businesses to January > Sponsored content. 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Dec 13, 2016 12:40 AM UTC President-elect Donald Trump has postponed a news conference that was set for this week on his potential conflicts of interest regarding his business operations, pushing the announcement to January and notably after the Electoral College vote scheduled for next week. Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Trump’s transition team, [told](http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/12/media/donald-trump-news-conference-postponed/) CNN the announcement set for Dec. 15 had been rescheduled for next month. It was to be Trump’s first press conference since July. According to [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-12-12/trump-said-to-postpone-announcement-on-future-of-his-businesses), which first reported the news, the President-elect wants more time because he has been occupied with cabinet and top administration appointments. (On Monday evening, Trump tweeted he would make an announcement about his Secretary of State on Tuesday morning.) A significant amount of coverage since Trump’s win in November has dealt with his many potential conflicts of interest. From his U.S. properties to foreign interests and ongoing legal disputes, here is a [handy list](http://time.com/4578431/donald-trump-conflicts-of-interest-list/). In an interview with [_Fox News Sunday_](http://time.com/4597416/transcript-donald-trump-fox-interview/) on Dec. 11, Trump [said](http://time.com/4597416/transcript-donald-trump-fox-interview/) he would hand over business interests to his family members and executives. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4598673/donald-trump-postpones-business-january/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4598673/donald-trump-postpones-business-january/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Postpones Announcement on Future of His Businesses to January","datePublished":"2016-12-13T00:40:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:16:18.226Z","description":"It was initially scheduled for Dec. 15 but now set for January","url":"https://time.com/4598673/donald-trump-postpones-business-january/","keywords":["Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt45d2d7556acfd8a0/6988b2a9bc6cfc64eb3df90a/trump_cia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt45d2d7556acfd8a0/6988b2a9bc6cfc64eb3df90a/trump_cia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President-elect Donald Trump at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Dec. 9, 2016.","caption":"President-elect Donald Trump at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Dec. 9, 2016.","creditText":"Drew Angerer—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4598673/donald-trump-postpones-business-january/","name":"Donald Trump Postpones Announcement on Future of His Businesses to January"}}]}] ```