Can someone smarter than me help me understand how the United States seems to have completely given up on forcing presidents to divest their business interests while in the presidency?

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unfortunately a weakness of the system and a symptom of the late republic crisis we’re going through

there isn’t really a way to force them to give up the business interests, as this was never signed into law. It was more tradition and respect to the 1978 ethics in government act, and each president from Lyndon B onwards divested their assets, either selling them off or holding them in a blind trust

this was broken in trumps first term when he refused to divest or stop involvement with his assets and businesses, breaking the long standing tradition.

Until this gets codified into law, now that the tradition is broken, it may continue to intensify along current lines

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