"260,000 Words, Full of Self-Praise, From Trump on the Virus": The self-regard, the credit-taking, the audacious rewriting of recent history to cast himself as the hero of the pandemic rather than the president who was slow to respond: such have been the defining features of Mr. Trump’s use of the bully pulpit during the coronavirus outbreak (...) The transcripts show striking patterns and repetitions in the messages he has conveyed, revealing a display of presidential hubris and self-pity unlike anything historians say they have seen before"