Business offers are still coming across President-elect Donald Trump's desk hoping to entice him to do big business deals in the final weeks before he takes office – with Trump saying one major player presented him with seven offers in a single week.

'If I were really going to do new deals right now –I am turning down billions of dollars of deals,' Trump told host Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday when pressed about his array of business interests and potential conflicts.

'I turned down seven deals with one big player, great player, last week, because I thought it could be perceived as a conflict of interest,' Trump said, without specifying who made the offers.

Trump then estimated that he turned down 'probably a billion dollars of deals.'

President-elect Donald Trump says he has turned down 'probably a billion dollars of deals' as he prepares to take over the country

Trump's disclosure of the rejected business propositions come as he prepares to reveal on December 15 how his sprawling business operations will be run when he takes office and what actions he will take to remove himself from operation of his company.

Trump rejected suggestions from Wallace that foreign countries booking events at his D.C. hotel could be a way to curry favor.

'No,' Trump responded.

' I will tell you, running for president – the money I spent is peanuts compared to the money I won't make, and that's okay, because this is so important,' Trump said, in reference to the $60 million he poured into his successful campaign.

'What I'm doing is so important. This is a calling,' he added.

Describing his time in office, he said: 'I'm not going to be doing deals at all. Now that would be – I don't even know if that's a conflict. I mean, I have the right to do it. You know, under the law, I have the right to do it. I just don't want to do it. I don't want to do deals, because I want to focus on this,' he said.

Trump spoke about his business dealings in a wide-ranging interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News

The New York Times reported that Ivanka Trump would be withdrawing from day-to-day operation of the Trump Organization

Trump plans to announce his plans to step away from daily operation of his business at a December 15 press conference

He said it wouldn't be the same thing if his adult children did deals on behalf of the company – although he later said his kids weren't doing deals either.

'My executives will run it with my children. It's a big company, it's a great company. But I'm going to have nothing to do with management,' Trump said.

Laying the groundwork for what appears to be an effort not to divest himself from the company he built while serving in office, Trump said that when he ran for president, 'everybody knew that I was a very big owner of real estate all over the world.'

Trump has said he will turn over operation of the business to three of his adult children, and has said Ivanka Trump will appear at his upcoming press conference.

The New York Times reported last week that under the latest iteration of the plan, Ivanka Trump would take a leave of absence from the company. She and husband Jared Kushner have reportedly been scoping out potential homes in Washington.

'It's totally different,' Trump said, asked about his children. 'They're not president. I mean, they're not president. But they're not going to do it either. Oh, I see what you're getting at. No. They're not making deals either, for my company.'

Trump said that although they wouldn't be 'making deals' 'they're going to run my company.