The Big Move: The Trump administration is moving its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the capital city of Jerusalem today in a long-promised gesture of recognizing the real seat of power. Jared and Ivanka are there to represent the US.

Already 12 protesters have been killed in Gaza as Israeli troops use live bullets.

Moving the embassy is a break with the long-standing policy of neutrality in the dispute over control of Jerusalem between the Israelis and Palestinians. It also ends the American role as the neutral broker between the two, although we have always basically sided with Israel.

With conflicts boiling in the Middle East, some foreign policy experts say this will add to instability. But President Trump’s firebrand national Security Adviser John Bolton said on ABC’s This Week , “If you’re not prepared to recognize that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and that’s where the American Embassy should be, then you’re operating on a completely different wavelength. Recognizing reality always enhances the chances for peace.”

The Jobs President: Running for President, Donald Trump promised that he would create 25 million jobs. Now he’s vowing to save jobs — in China.

Trump tweeted yesterday, “President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!”

So why is ZTE in so much trouble? It’s because Donald Trump ordered the Commerce Department to punish the company. The department banned shipments of American technology to ZTE for seven years, claiming the ZTE had failed to reprimand employees who violated American trade controls on Iran and North Korea. Consequently ZTE has been laying off workers and shutting down operations because it is unable to make smartphones and telecommunications equipment without American microchips.

Following his “get tough” policy on China trade policy, Trump’s tweet about saving Chinese jobs is a head-scratcher. He has basically said he doesn’t care who loses a job so long as it’s not an American. He’s either won something from the Chinese, or he had a boring weekend.

Fox in the White House: President Trump and Fox News sycophant Sean Hannity speak on the phone at least four times a week after Hannity’s evening television show, and sometimes several times a day, Olivia Nuzzi reports for New York Magazine. She says Trump frequently tells staffers, ““I just hung up with Hannity.”

Nuzzi says Trump and Hannity bond over their right-wing politics, celebrity, and obsession with popularity ratings.

Current and former staffers told Nuzzi that Hannity feeds Trump a loop of reinforcing opinion and misinformation. One former staff member told her, “What ends up happening is Judge Jeanine or Hannity fill him up with a bunch of crazy shit, and everyone on staff has to go and knock down all the fucking fires they started.”

Nuzzi writes, “More than any other figure of the right-wing infosphere, Hannity has behaved as if he were an extension of the Trump communications department, his daily stream of assertions serving to prop up Trump and, in real time, define what Trumpism is supposed to be.”

Leaky Ship: The Trump administration was upset this past week by the leak of a snarky remark a staff member made about the dying Arizona Sen. John McCain. Despite the President’s denial that reporters have any real sources inside the White House, the current administration is one of the leakiest in recent history.

Staff members are waging their internal policy wars in the press or using the press to reach a President who just doesn’t listen. The leaks show that not only do they not like each other, they don’t care much for the President either. Leaks are a sign of either dissent or using the press for advantage. Jonathan Swan writes for Axios that, “This White House leaks so much that meetings called to bemoan leaks begin with acknowledgement the bemoaning will be leaked, which is promptly leaked…by several leakers in a smallish room.”

The Obit Page: Chuck Knox, the veteran NFL coach who led the Seattle Seahawks for nine years and took the Los Angeles Rams to three straight NFC championship games, has died. He was 86.

The Roundup: As it continues what it hopes will be a world class navy, China has sent out its first domestically-made aircraft carrier for sea trials. — The suicide bombings in Indonesia Sunday were carried out by a family of six; mother, father, sons 16 and 18, daughters 9 and 12. — Gasoline prices are expected to hit a national average of $3 this summer as demand increases. Global political events could drive the price even higher. — Seattle votes this week on whether to tax large employers to help finance affordable housing for the homeless.

Social Notes: Donald Trump Jr., who’s divorcing his wife Vanessa, is dating the fame-hungry Kimberly Guilfoyle of Fox News. She’s a lawyer and he might need as many as he can get.

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