When Donald Trump bragged at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that his administration “had accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country”, laughter rippled across the cavernous hall.
So at his press conference a day later, the US president used a new tactic: modesty. Mr Trump said he could not possibly say how South Korean president Moon Jae-in had praised his North Korea efforts in a television interview the previous day.
“I can’t say because you would say I’m too braggadocious,” Mr Trump declared, before reverting to type. “What he said about me last night was an unbelievable thing: It couldn’t have happened without President Trump.”