The hotel has become a symbol of the potential financial conflicts for the incoming president and his team. | Getty Pence to keynote Heritage Foundation event at Trump’s D.C. hotel

The Heritage Foundation has reserved the “presidential ballroom” at President-elect Donald Trump’s Washington D.C. hotel on Tuesday for an event to honor some of the group’s top donors — those who give at least $1,000 annually.

And who keynoting the evening event at Trump’s hotel? None other than Vice President-elect Mike Pence.

Trump’s hotel, in the renovated Old Post Office Building only blocks from the White House, has become a symbol of the potential financial conflicts for the incoming president, as two foreign nations have already scheduled events there.

The Azerbaijani embassy will be co-hosting a Hanukkah party there this month. And the day after the Heritage event, Bahrain has booked the hotel for a “national day reception,” according to an invitation.

Trump’s transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Heritage, meanwhile, said the choice of Trump’s hotel was a matter of convenience.

"The Heritage donor conference is being held across the street at the Ronald Reagan Center,” said Heritage spokeswoman Sarah Mills. “We had such a big response to the Pence speech, confirmed less than two weeks ago, that the only space close by that would meet our space needs and new security requirements without negatively impacting the conference schedule was the adjacent Trump hotel.”

Trump initially said he will deal with conflicts by creating a “blind trust” and having his children running his multinational, multi-billion dollar empire. Financial and ethics experts say that arrangement would not amount to a blind trust, nor assuage concerns.

On Nov. 30, Trump tweeted he would be leaving his business “in total” but he has not elaborated, saying he will discuss more at a Dec. 15 news conference, which would be his first since the election.

