Donald Trump is in a pickle.

The businessman is under pressure to put his billions of dollars of assets around the country and across the globe into a blind trust to avoid any possible conflict of interest.

But Trump, who has no legal responsibility to do so, doesn’t appear to be willing to set up such an arrangement for his hotels, condos, golf courses and other pricey assets.

During the campaign, Trump suggested he would step away from the Trump Organization and put his children in charge.

But that is not sitting well with good-government types.

“Even if he doesn’t talk to them, he’d still know what properties they’re overseeing, what would be good for them and what tax changes would benefit them,” said Noah Bookbinder, the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Every president since George H. W. Bush has taken measures to assure the public he’s acting in its interest rather than his personal interest. But it is up to the president to make that decision.

Despite the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, which, in response to the Watergate scandal, imposed conflict-of-interest rules on Congress, the law kept presidents exempt from its restrictions.

Their inclusion in the act, the reasoning went, might impede presidents from pursuing the best interests of the country out of fear almost every executive action could be criticized as being conflicted in one way or another.

For President George H.W. Bush, his son, George W. and for Bill Clinton, the method for avoiding conflicts was a blind trust — where a person transfers assets to an independent trust and is kept ignorant about how those assets are managed.

“If I become president, I couldn’t care less about my company,” he said during a debate. “Run the company, kids. Have a good time.”

Yet the watchdog director hardly expects Trump to extend the conflict-avoidance measures taken by his predecessors — especially in light of his refusal to show the public his tax returns.

“That’s another longstanding tradition Trump did not feel a need to follow,” Bookbinder said.