Family Values… Pentagon Edition

One pro-Trump account on X accidentally asked the most honest question on the internet:

“Raise your hand if you elected Trump so his kids could make money off government contracts.”

Well… apparently the answer is “mission accomplished.”

Eric and Don Jr. are now jumping into the military drone business, selling products to the Pentagon their dad controls, through a bank they partly own, in a market that suddenly opened up after foreign competitors got banned. Nothing suspicious there at all. Just your everyday family entrepreneurship… Washington style. 😏

Here’s the fun part. Eric and Don Jr. just announced that Aureus Greenway Holdings—a company that runs two golf courses in the Orlando area—is merging with Powerus, a drone company chasing Pentagon contracts.

So yes… a golf course company is becoming a military drone manufacturer overnight.

Apparently the next logical step after “18 holes and a cart” is “unmanned aerial combat platform.”

And who’s handling the deal?

Their own investment bank, Dominari Securities, where each brother owns about 6%. Dominari is also helping raise about $9 million from investors—including Unusual Machines, a drone parts company where Don Jr. conveniently sits on the advisory board.

It’s like a family Monopoly game… except the pieces are defense contracts.

Powerus says it plans to crank out 10,000 drones a month and apply lessons learned from the war in Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s FCC conveniently banned all new foreign-made drones in the U.S. last December, wiping out competition from China’s DJI, which used to control over 70% of the global market.

So the sequence goes like this:

Dad bans the competition.
The sons jump into the market.
The investment bank they own brokers the deal.

Totally normal. Nothing to see here. Just classic free-market capitalism… with a family discount.

And this isn’t even their first drone rodeo. Eric Trump also invested in Israeli drone company Xtend, which just opened a U.S. facility in Tampa. That deal alone was valued around $1.5 billion. Not bad for a side hustle while dad is commander-in-chief.

Ethics experts have warned for years that letting the kids run the family business instead of putting assets into a blind trust creates a direct highway for conflicts of interest.

This situation isn’t exactly subtle.

It’s less “conflict of interest” and more “conflict of interest with a neon sign and a marching band.”