At present, Donald Trump has a lot on his plate. He’s got his escalating trade war with China and his unresolved feud with the E.U. He’s got the ongoing Robert Mueller investigation and a possible interview, the stakes of which jumped significantly over the weekend when he admitted that the purpose of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting was to get dirt about Hillary Clinton from a lawyer connected to the Kremlin. He’s got fights to start with professional athletes. Yet even with everything he’s got going on, the president makes time to indulge in his favorite not-so-guilty pleasure: watching himself, over and over, on TV.

Axios reports that, “like an N.F.L. coach reviewing game film, Trump likes to watch replays of his debate and rally performances.” Only, instead of looking for areas where things went wrong or places to improve, Trump “luxuriates in the moments he believes are evidence of his brilliance.” As sources who’ve had the unenviable task of sitting with him during these exercises told Jonathan Swan, Trump frequently commentates while watching himself on the big screen, “reveling in his most controversial lines,” and interjecting to say things such as, “See what I did there?” and “People think it’s easy. I’ve been doing this a long time now and people are used to it, every rally. It’s like, people have said P.T. Barnum. People have said that before. And they think that’s easy, because hey, P.T. Barnum, he does the circus . . . They don’t realize it’s a lot of work. It’s not easy.” And of course, there are some performances that he likes to watch over and over again, fast-forwarding to his favorite part.

In the early weeks of the administration, Trump loved to relive his debate performances against Hillary Clinton. His favorite, according to sources with direct knowledge, was the St. Louis debate after the Access Hollywood tape leaked, when the Trump team invited Bill Clinton’s sexual misconduct accusers as their guests in the live audience.

Trump used to enjoy re-watching the moment in that debate when Clinton observed, “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.” “Because,” Trump replied, “You’d be in jail.” A source who’s discussed the moment with Trump told me, “He thinks it’s the greatest thing that ever happened in the history of presidential debates.”

Lest anyone think this is a new habit, or simply a way to fill empty “executive time,” back in December 2015, the man who would be president told People that his favorite TV show to watch was “S.N.L, starring me.” This, of course, is the same sort of narcissism that has led our dear president to conclude that he can solve any global crisis if he just meets with a world leader one-on-one, or that he can convince Mueller’s own investigators that their probe into his campaign, which has so far resulted in more than a dozen indictments and a healthy handful of guilty pleas, is nothing more than a witch hunt. It’s still not totally clear where the president’s unbridled confidence comes from. But hey, at least the guy’s consistent.