Not so.

He was ridiculing Rullus because Rullus had dared to go about in mourning--"sordidatus"-- on behalf of his country.
But the tone in which Cicero speaks of himself is magnificent.

It is so grand as to make us feel that a Consul of Rome, who had the cares of Rome on his shoulders, was entitled to declare his own greatness to the Senate and to the people.

There are the two important orations--that spoken first in the Senate, and then the speech to the people from which I have already quoted the passage personal to Rullus.

In both of them he declares his own idea of a Consul, and of himself as Consul.