self-aggrandizing

In another post, he characterized a school board member’s statement as “myopic, unanalytical and self-aggrandizing.”

At a dinner celebrating her Uncle Luca’s improper ascension, she strides into the room, seats herself at the other end of the table, and interrupts his self-aggrandizing speech to address the family members who aided her father’s calumny.

She continued, “But it’s just about who feels adequate enough to tell their story. And the truth is that everybody should feel important enough to tell their story . . .We're used to men being swashbuckling pirates who go away and do the hero's journey but a woman doing the same thing needs to be, you know, extra self-aggrandizing.”

The comedian concluded, “It’s as though they’ve created a fictional character, a bizarro Trump, whose accomplishments and character bear little resemblance to the self-aggrandizing, perpetual victim guy he continues to tell you explicitly that he is.”

That his tenure has curdled into absurdist tales of grubby graft and self-aggrandizing travel that a high-end credit-card rewards program could have furnished is a reflection of an incredible paradox—the great expositor of tough-on-crime politics allegedly did so much petty crime that he might not make it to the end of his first term of office.