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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(134,929 posts)
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 09:17 PM 17 hrs ago

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 17 hrs ago OP
remember when repukes screamed endlessly about Hunter Biden? Skittles 17 hrs ago #1
Yes JBTaurus83 17 hrs ago #6
Well he painted a $5000 dollar painting! Hassin Bin Sober 16 hrs ago #9
Yep. Laptop! Laptop! BlueWaveNeverEnd 15 hrs ago #11
Trump's Sons gfarber 17 hrs ago #2
Then he will use the 'Slaughter Bots' on us.... SonOfNebanaube 17 hrs ago #3
Uday and Qusay are at it again, eh? johnnyfins 17 hrs ago #4
Hopefully, we get to find their daddy in a worm hole KPN 15 hrs ago #13
Grifters gotta grift! surfered 17 hrs ago #5
Like father, like FIL malaise 1 hr ago #18
I wonder how much the Trump Crime Family will steal from the US? Irish_Dem 16 hrs ago #7
How about how much they already of have stolen or appropriated against the emoluments clause. mdbl 1 hr ago #15
Members of congress and the courts get their cut. Irish_Dem 32 min ago #21
Bueller? Tapper? Congress? SCotUS? UTUSN 16 hrs ago #8
The next democratic candidate must run on throwing these psychos in prison. Initech 15 hrs ago #10
Someday when this is all over KentuckyWoman 15 hrs ago #12
And why not? popsdenver 3 hrs ago #14
Why is it jaw dropping? malaise 1 hr ago #16
Everyone in Trumps orbit is a war profiteer, scam artist, grifter, thief, or pedophile. Or, all of the above. Multichromatic 1 hr ago #17
It's past time to take another look at those BidenRocks 1 hr ago #19
It's so bizarre! Kablooie 56 min ago #20

gfarber

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


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



mdbl

(8,562 posts)
15. How about how much they already of have stolen or appropriated against the emoluments clause.
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 01:20 PM
1 hr ago

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

Initech

(108,493 posts)
10. The next democratic candidate must run on throwing these psychos in prison.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 11:25 PM
15 hrs ago

Fuck Trump and his whole damn family.

KentuckyWoman

(7,394 posts)
12. Someday when this is all over
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 11:39 PM
15 hrs ago

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

(2,162 posts)
14. And why not?
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 12:07 PM
3 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

(122 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
1 hr 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

(3,164 posts)
19. It's past time to take another look at those
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 02:07 PM
1 hr 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
56 min 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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