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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(134,966 posts)
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 09:17 PM Monday

Trump's Sons Launch Jaw-Dropping Bid to Cash in on Dad's War

Donald Trump’s sons could be in for a payday over their father’s planned $1 billion-plus military equipment purchases.

Donald Jr. and Eric Trump are investors in a new drone company targeting Pentagon contracts, with plans to go public on the Nasdaq, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The Trump administration has made domestic drone supply a national security priority, banning new models of Chinese drones—which had long dominated the consumer and commercial markets—and launching the Pentagon’s Drone Dominance initiative.

The program is earmarked to spend $1.1 billion procuring hundreds of thousands of American-made systems by 2027. That has opened a major commercial window in a sector that has historically been fragmented and starved of defense contracts.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-sons-launch-jaw-dropping-143459597.html

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Trump's Sons Launch Jaw-Dropping Bid to Cash in on Dad's War (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday OP
remember when repukes screamed endlessly about Hunter Biden? Skittles Monday #1
Yes JBTaurus83 Monday #6
Well he painted a $5000 dollar painting! Hassin Bin Sober Monday #9
Yep. Laptop! Laptop! BlueWaveNeverEnd Monday #11
Trump's Sons gfarber Monday #2
Then he will use the 'Slaughter Bots' on us.... SonOfNebanaube Monday #3
Keep shouting about this please TommyT139 7 hrs ago #23
Uday and Qusay are at it again, eh? johnnyfins Monday #4
Hopefully, we get to find their daddy in a worm hole KPN Monday #13
Grifters gotta grift! surfered Monday #5
Like father, like FIL malaise 12 hrs ago #18
I wonder how much the Trump Crime Family will steal from the US? Irish_Dem Monday #7
How about how much they already of have stolen or appropriated against the emoluments clause. mdbl 12 hrs ago #15
Members of congress and the courts get their cut. Irish_Dem 11 hrs ago #21
Bueller? Tapper? Congress? SCotUS? UTUSN Monday #8
The next democratic candidate must run on throwing these psychos in prison. Initech Monday #10
Someday when this is all over KentuckyWoman Monday #12
And why not? popsdenver 13 hrs ago #14
Why is it jaw dropping? malaise 12 hrs ago #16
Everyone in Trumps orbit is a war profiteer, scam artist, grifter, thief, or pedophile. Or, all of the above. Multichromatic 12 hrs ago #17
It's past time to take another look at those BidenRocks 11 hrs ago #19
It's so bizarre! Kablooie 11 hrs ago #20
Comer is going to investigate them? Right Owens 7 hrs ago #22

gfarber

(257 posts)
2. Trump's Sons
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 09:32 PM
Monday


There once was a plan from the Hill,
To buy drones by the hundred-thousand still.
With a billion to spend,
The Pentagon penned
A program to boost domestic skill.

Two sons of a president bold
Found a startup in drones to behold.
If contracts align,
And markets feel fine,
Their Nasdaq debut might turn gold.

For years Chinese drones filled the sky,
Cheap cameras that businesses buy.
But bans changed the game,
Security’s aim—
Now local manufacturers try.

The Pentagon’s push came with might,
“Drone Dominance” set in its sight.
With billions in play,
New firms race the fray,
To build fleets that buzz into flight.

A market once fractured and thin
Now beckons investors to spin.
If contracts appear,
The profits draw near—
And Trump’s sons may happily grin.

© 2026 Glen Farber. All Rights Reserved.

https://buymeacoffee.com/gfarber



TommyT139

(2,328 posts)
23. Keep shouting about this please
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 06:49 PM
7 hrs ago

For a supposedly short-term "excursion," no one starts a company producing a new line of high technology military equipment only to use outside the US.

DHS has already been using drones to surveil peaceful protesters, identifying them with DOGE/Palantir -constructed facial rec cameras and detailed databases.

These will be used on/over US soil, against citizens. And if they are classified as a "national security" item, I bet the information about purchases and use will not be available to us.

mdbl

(8,564 posts)
15. How about how much they already of have stolen or appropriated against the emoluments clause.
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 01:20 PM
12 hrs ago

And the complicit assholes in the GOP Congress just sit with their thumbs up their butts doing nothing about it.

Initech

(108,504 posts)
10. The next democratic candidate must run on throwing these psychos in prison.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 11:25 PM
Monday

Fuck Trump and his whole damn family.

KentuckyWoman

(7,397 posts)
12. Someday when this is all over
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 11:39 PM
Monday

The rules around government contracts and foreign business deals need to be tightened up. And taxpayers should confiscate every penny grifted by all of them.

I know it won't happen but a girl can dream

popsdenver

(2,177 posts)
14. And why not?
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 12:07 PM
13 hrs ago

Trump, all his spawn, Jared, all of Trump's advisors, and fellow Republican Politicians, and everyone else in his CABAL have been grifting to the MAX off their "entitled", lawless positions......

Multichromatic

(124 posts)
17. Everyone in Trumps orbit is a war profiteer, scam artist, grifter, thief, or pedophile. Or, all of the above.
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 01:22 PM
12 hrs ago

Can't we get rid of all these corrupt scum bags or put them in jail? I am SO sick of hearing how Trump or his family are robbing the country blind.

BidenRocks

(3,167 posts)
19. It's past time to take another look at those
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 02:07 PM
11 hrs ago

War Profiteering Laws!
Insider Trading
Market Manipulation
and just being insufferable assholes!

Kablooie

(19,096 posts)
20. It's so bizarre!
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 02:20 PM
11 hrs ago

They spend their whole life figuring out how to scam people to grab more money for themselves. Money they don’t need and can never spend. Their sense of worth is based on how big a number they can write in their bank accounts. It doesn’t provide anything for anyone, not even themselves because they already have more than enough to do anything they want. It’s just bragging rights among their cronies. They feel proud to be able to destroy lives just for stupid bragging rights.

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