The director of the Office of Government Ethics, Walter Shaub Jr., says the Trump administration has so undermined ethical standards that the United States is “pretty close to a laughingstock at this point.” Shaub is resigning today. He’s been critical of President Trump on a slew of issues, including Trump’s failure to release his tax returns, his refusal to sell his assets, and his frequent visits to his golf courses, which Shaub says “create the appearance of profiting from the presidency.” In his interview with The New York Times, Shaub also criticized Democrats for trying co-opt his work, saying, “I don’t like the fair-weather friends who are supportive of the ethics program only as a political tool against this present administration.”