{"id":44706,"date":"2026-04-26T12:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/44706\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T12:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:47:11","slug":"eric-trump-brags-about-his-company-winning-24m-pentagon-deal-for-killer-robots-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/44706\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Trump brags about his company winning $24M Pentagon deal for &#8216;killer robots&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Donald Trump (R) and his son Eric Trump (L) depart the White House\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"810\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b8518fc488db2a4f122076212175f470.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump (R) and his son Eric Trump (L) depart the White House -Credit:Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p> (Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Eric Trump, son of President Donald Trump and chief strategic officer of Foundation Industries, has secured a $24 million Pentagon contract for the company&#8217;s battlefield robotics initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Eric and Foundation Industries CEO Sankaet Pathak appeared together on Fox Business on Thursday to talk through the newly awarded contract.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Pathak elaborated on the company&#8217;s Phantom 2 technology \u2014 a humanoid robot designed for battlefield deployment that would operate with minimal or no human oversight. It comes amid growing concern about the president&#8217;s erratic behavior &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/entertainment\/five-unhinged-trump-moments-investment-100000181.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:just days ago, Trump made a disturbing sex comment on stage that stunned his audience into silence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">just days ago, Trump made a disturbing sex comment on stage that stunned his audience into silence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pathak said: &#8220;There are scenarios where you would need almost no human-in-loop. However, majority of the scenarios are not that, and from everything that we&#8217;ve heard, Pentagon is actually not pursuing non-human-in-loop applications in a big way.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/entertainment\/trump-removes-ai-jesus-image-100000781.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Trump&#039;s &#039;lunatic&#039; answer when asked what his favorite Bible verse is causes outrage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Trump&#8217;s &#8216;lunatic&#8217; answer when asked what his favorite Bible verse is causes outrage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/news\/politics\/eric-trump-finally-shares-seven-1507491\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eric Trump finally shares the 7 words that Barron whispered into Joe Biden&#039;s ear;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Eric Trump finally shares the 7 words that Barron whispered into Joe Biden&#8217;s ear<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having said that, there are some applications where you want instant response times. For instance, the Iron Dome. You cannot wait for a human to approve all of the reaction times because the likelihood that if you do not act, there&#8217;s 100% casualty is quite high.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are scenarios where we would have to be able to rapidly deploy and use these technologies, and we cannot always be calling the CEO of a company to ask for permission before we do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Eric spoke on Fox News on Thursday\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"810\" height=\"539\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e0d0832880d01828d93aa73ff16b83dc.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Eric spoke on Fox News on Thursday -Credit:Fox News<\/p>\n<p>In his own remarks, Eric voiced strong confidence in the company and the contract, emphasizing that investing in robotics is fully in line with his father&#8217;s &#8220;America First&#8221; agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Eric, who had previously invested in Foundation and took on the role of chief strategic adviser in March, refrained from elaborating on the specifics of how the company secured the multimillion-dollar contract during the interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sankaet&#8217;s been a friend of mine. I walked through his factory. I couldn&#8217;t believe what I saw, coming from hospitality the uses are unlimited, but Maria, you were just talking about China, you know we are America First. We have to win this race. We have to win alot of races right? I got involved with crypto in a very big way because we had to win that digital revolution. We have to win robotics in the United States of America,&#8221; Eric stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We better be winning this race in the United States of America. We&#8217;re the greatest economy in the world. And that&#8217;s what Sankaet is doing and he&#8217;s doing a phenomenal job,&#8221; the president&#8217;s son continued.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump listen to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"810\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2dd0f4a2e3ff841f2be7ef1c0cf25b66.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump listen to President Donald Trump&#8217;s State of the Union address -Credit:AP<\/p>\n<p>Social media users swiftly expressed their fury over these remarks, questioning whether the firm truly deserved the Pentagon contract without Eric&#8217;s connections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Serious question- there are a lot of existing robotics companies- including Optimus,&#8221; one X user posted. &#8220;Has the Pentagon explained how Eric&#8217;s new company &#8216;won&#8217; the bid?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president&#8217;s son, who was never involved in this industry before his father became president, should not be getting contracts from the Pentagon. This is absurd corruption that Republicans in Congress will say nothing about and do no oversight,&#8221; another user wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This family continues to be involved in blatant corruption. A sitting president&#8217;s son with a Pentagon contract, WHERE is Congress on this?! Yet they all whined and screamed over Hunter Biden auctioning off his artwork,&#8221; a third user said.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themirror.com\/news\/politics\/trump-says-tulsi-gabbard-hotter-1284325\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tulsi Gabbard got a sickening compliment from Trump in a room full of people.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Tulsi Gabbard got a sickening compliment from Trump in a room full of people.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump (R) and his son Eric Trump (L) depart the White House -Credit:Anadolu via Getty Images (Anadolu&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12,81,27065,9979,184,27066,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-44706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eric-trump","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eric-trump","10":"tag-foundation-industries","11":"tag-fox-business","12":"tag-pentagon","13":"tag-sankaet-pathak","14":"tag-trump"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116471086622556761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}