Eliza Collins

USA TODAY

President and businessman at the same time? Donald Trump thinks he can do it.

"In theory I could run my business perfectly and then run the country perfectly. There's never been a case like this,” the president-elect said in a meeting with The New York Times Tuesday, according to a reporter who attended.

Trump is right in that he is going into unprecedented territory. The businessman runs a multi-billion dollar empire. But running a business at the same time as ruling a country would raise some serious questions.

Trump previously said that if elected his children would run the business and after the election one of his lawyers said they would run it via a blind trust. But the transition team hasn’t provided any details about the process and in the interview Tuesday Trump didn’t seem to see the urgency in handing over the reins.