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While I pushed him and did not necessarily agree with his categorical declarations or self-praise, I let him have his say.

“My mom taught me that self-praise is no recommendation,” Bass said.

“My mother used to say self-praise stinks,” he says.

Looking fresh, feeling fit and with a European tie looming against Roma, Shine permits herself some rare self-praise.

It indulges his tendency for self-praise — describing Trump’s “public service to our great country.”