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There’s no end in sight to President Donald Trump’s unprovoked and unconstitutional war with Iran, and two of the president’s children appear ready to cash in.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are investing in a Florida-based drone company called Powerus that “is vying to meet fresh demand from the Pentagon” for drones that started when the Trump administration banned foreign-made drones and drone components from the US in December.

The company will soon be going public by merging with Aureus Greenway Holdings, a publicly traded golf-course holding company that is also backed by the Trumps, and is expected to make its debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange in the coming months.

“Investors in the deal include one of the Trumps’ investment vehicles, American Ventures,” reported the Journal, “and Unusual Machines, a drone components company where Donald Trump Jr. is a shareholder and advisory board member … Powerus is also a customer of Unusual Machines.”

In an interview with the Journal, Powerus CEO Andrew Fox predicted robust demand for his company’s products, commenting that the drone market “is certainly going to grow faster than, say, golf........

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