He said, "What is this thing everybody is congratulating about?
Yet, this is the kind of reform which Congress proposes, passes, and then congratulates itself about," he writes.
"He came over and congratulated me about winning the cup and I said: 'Don't forget about me, and don't forget about us.
"He congratulated me about my upcoming wedding, told me he'd pray for me and my future husband and talked about the hope of the family," she said.
Trump congratulated himself about "being right" after Orlando, and he echoed that sentiment on Fox & Friends Monday, saying "I knew this was going to happen".
Mantel should be congratulated for creating suspense about matters whose outcome we've known since high school.
Perhaps Sir Kevin Tebbit should be congratulated for his concern about the anxiety that an appearance before the select committee would have caused Dr Kelly.
In the insider account of the Iraq war preparations by the Watergate reporter Bob Woodward, there is a description of Alastair Campbell being congratulated by Mr Bush about how committed his boss was to the imminent conflict.
He talked about being congratulated by his daughter Malia, who proceeded to remind him that it was the family dog's birthday, and he suggested that he was undeserving of the award.
Crace's new novel, "Being Dead," reads as if he's had his fill of being congratulated for his comforting notions about an afterlife.
