Last week was a hit parade of topics for my column. Bob Woodward's bombshell book on the Trump administration, Naomi Osaka's victory over Serena Williams at the U.S. Open Women's Singles, a modest North Korean military parade without ICBMs or other ballistic missiles, huge, quake-driven blackouts in Hokkaido, just to name a few.
The legendary journalist's revelations are hardly new. As Fareed Zakaria stated, we all know that "Behind Trump's ranting, impulsive, incoherent, narcissistic facade lies a ranting, impulsive, incoherent, narcissistic man." Though U.S. President Donald Trump's reactions indicated that what is written in the book must be true, it is nothing more than that.
Osaka, the first Japanese winner of a Grand Slam tennis title, prevailed during the match against Williams. Japan is very proud of her, although we know she speaks primitive Japanese with a heavy American accent and that Williams was primarily fighting against Osaka and not for "women's rights and equality" as she later claimed.