Donald Trump Jr. was appointed to the advisory board of a small, Florida-based drone component company called Unusual Machines in November 2024. [1] He is also an investor in the company and holds a significant financial stake (reported to be worth around $4 million). Following his appointment, the company's stock price experienced a sharp increase. [2] In October 2025, the company announced it had secured a contract with the U.S. Army to supply drone motors and other components, described by the CEO as their largest-ever U.S. government order. The Army also signaled plans for a possible follow-on order for additional components in 2026.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1956955/000168316824...

[2] https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/umac-stock-climbs-amid-trump...

Horrible as it sounds, that may explain the plan to buy drones instead of a plan to spin up the manufacturing capacity to make millions of drones.

But also we need to look at it from the perspective of leaders as well. You want to spin up manufacturing capacity so you roll out policies to do that and what happens in a republic? Every leader demands the manufacturing be in their district/state. No matter how ill suited that district/state is to that manufacturing. Political considerations become the driving factor as opposed to ability, resiliency and sustainability.

So sometimes just providing demand side of a market can spin up manufacturing without having to wade into all that nonsense. And believe me, it would be nonsense.

So the double fail of their brazen corruption could inadvertently end up being a positive long term in this particular instance. Like multiplying two negative numbers.

War can be very profitable

can't monitor the populous without drones and AI to do the dirty work of the police-state

feels like grift.

i'm sure I'll get downvoted for this comment, but it always feels like a way to enrich themselves.