pretensions

Reflecting on the press, he later noted, "The press has pretensions of being a crusader but is more often a preserver of the status quo."

Patti Smith’s music “verged on a parody of beat poetry,” while the vastly influential Velvet Underground, a band that made New York punk possible, is hobbled by its “pretensions to hipness, irony and amorality.”

But Trump never had any pretensions about being a common man.

In 1956, shortly before his death, Mencken went even further; “American journalism is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.”

However, Wales will relish the chance to stick a spanner in the spokes and puncture such title pretensions.