Trump's sons tee up their latest drone deal

The Trump sons’ latest drone bet runs through a tiny Florida golf company that’s now trying to rebrand itself for a White House-backed boom

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In the current U.S. economy, even a golf company can wake up and decide it’s part of the drone industrial base. Aureus Greenway, a golf company backed by Don Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, is merging with Powerus in a deal that turns Florida fairways into a public-markets runway for the domestic-drone boom

Until about five minutes ago, Aureus was a very small, very Florida public company whose actual business was running two golf clubs near Orlando (in Kissimmee Bay and Remington). Its stock began trading on Nasdaq $NDAQ in February 2025. But it just signed a merger agreement with Autonomous Power Corporation, which does business as Powerus, and says the combined company expects to take the name Powerus Corporation and trade under the ticker PUSA if the deal closes as expected this summer. The company’s announcement names Eric and Don Jr. among the “notable investors” in the combined company through American Venture Partners.

Aureus hired Dominari Securities to raise a roughly $9 million private placement (at $3 a share) from investors that include Unusual Machines........

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