Amid a host of interesting tidbits, President Obama revealed to Newsweek editor Jon Meacham in an interview aboard Air Force One last week a little gem of authentic narcissism buried right toward the end of the Q&A.

For Meacham, who normally lobs the questions in like a coach pitching to six year-old Little Leaguers, his peppering of the President about Afghanistan, Iraq, and Dick Cheney was relatively fast-ballish, which may have been the reason for a tame series of out questions to feed the cult of personality.

Meacham: And the last movie you saw?

Obama: Now, movies I’ve been doing OK [with] because it turns out we got this nice theater on the ground floor of my house … So Star Trek, we saw this weekend, which I thought was good. Everybody was saying I was Spock, so I figured I should check it out and—[the president makes the Vulcan salute with his hand].

Yes, you read that right.  The White House is now his house.  I thought the Messiah was supposed to be humble?

It’s odd that I can’t recall previous occupants of the presidential residence – Democrat or Republican – referring to the joint as “their house,” but my memory gets fuzzy about things like that. Not.

You are a tenant in the the people’s building, Mr. President.  Please try and remember that when speaking about your temporary place of residence.

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