Donald Trump will quit business because it is "visually important", he has said.

Announcing that he will be leaving his company, the President-elect claimed that he wasn't actually mandated to divest himself of his business interests. Instead he said that he was doing it so that the American people would think he is committed to the job.

That is despite the opinion of many of the world's most prominent constitutional lawyers, who have been near-unanimous in arguing that Mr Trump would have to leave his business interests before becoming President.

In a series of tweets, the billionaire businessman said that he wasn't "mandated to do this under the law". But he feels that it is "vsually important, as President, to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses", he said.