Diaper Diplomacy, 5 June 2026

Susan Kokinda, 6 June 2026



Susan argues that Trump’s recent comments praising overlap with Bernie Sanders and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s critique of “slavish devotion to free markets” signal not a change of sides but a shift to a different economic system. It frames Trump’s “new economic plan” as an industrial policy that uses tariffs, tax policy, directed investment, and potential public-private stakes in major AI firms, while also challenging Federal Reserve practices and Wall Street forecasting. Citing the latest jobs report (172,000 jobs versus a 105,000 forecast, with prior months revised upward), it claims the plan is working, though manufacturing hiring is still early, following a sequence of orders, production, investment, then jobs described by Peter Navarro. Susan says this approach revives Henry Clay’s “American System,” presented as distinct from free markets, free trade, or socialism.

US Central Command, 6 June 2026

… on Qeshm Island to defend against further attacks.

American forces remain vigilant and postured to respond to unjustified Iranian aggression in self-defense.

Supertanker Seized by US Forces, 5 June 2026

… network of illicit shipping facilitators that have enabled the Iranian regime to earn critical energy revenues, undermine stability in the region, and attack U.S. partners and allies.

This seizure is part of DOJ’s work with our whole-of-government partners to disrupt Iran’s illicit oil smuggling and revenue generation that benefit the government of Iran and the IRGC.

Todd Blance Nominated to Be Attorney General

It’s Absolutely Beautiful

All work is complete! Great American Patriots, primarily from the Great State of Oklahoma, plus Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, inspecting the very complex, but powerful, Dark Blue surface of the Reflecting Pool, prior to submerging it in CLEAN, BEAUTIFUL WATER. It was originally opened in 1922, but never functioned properly — now it does! Thank you President Trump, thank you Department of the Interior — AND THE BEST IS YET TO COME with The Trump Promenade at The Lincoln Memorial, and The Triumphal Arch, which will be, along with the White House Ballroom, when completed, the Greatest Structure in Washington

Donald J Trump

144% Increase

TDS

FinCEN Asks Financial Institutions to Detect & Report Illicit Activity Related to Illegal Aliens

… Financial System.

Secretary Bessent, 5 June 2026

… and East Asia.