Article snippet: The ballroom at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. was abuzz for the Kuwaiti Embassy's National Day celebration Monday evening — the second year in a row the embassy has opted to host its annual fete at the luxury hotel bearing the president's name. The exclusive, invite-only celebration, was shielded by security. The amount the Kuwaiti government spent at the hotel was similarly kept private, part of an undisclosed flow of money from foreign governments to Trump properties that has drawn sharp criticism from congressional critics and ethics groups in Washington. “The Constitution prohibits government officials gifts and things of value,” Robert Weissman, the president of the government watchdog group Public Citizen told ABC News. “The payments to the Trump properties are exactly the kinds of concerns that the framers had in mind because of your ability to buy or curry favor through direct payment to the president.” In January 2017, then-President-elect Donald Trump answered demands that he divest from his family businesses by pledging to donate foreign earnings to the Treasury. And this week, the Trump Organization announced it had made its first such donation. George Sorial, the Trump Organization’s chief compliance officer, said in a statement the company had passed along the income its hotels, golf course, and other businesses have received from foreign sources in 2017. “Although not a legal requirement, this voluntary donation fu... Link to the full article to read more