That's right dexter filkins, you snide, arrogant son of a butch: he congratulated himself to counter the fact that you aholes in the coastal media swamp will never congratulate him. Indeed, you pantywaist dweebs will lay into him every single time you write about him; so yeah, he congratulates himself.
I congratulate him too, and piss in your dexterdweeb direction.
The point of the article is that Bolton seems to be opposed to Trumps agenda.