Mr Morsi presented a raft of statistics designed to prove he was making progress solving Egypt's many problems, from Cairo's mounds of uncollected rubbish to inflation.
In defence of his patchy record in sorting out Cairo's notorious jams, he quoted a remarkable statistic, said to be from Ministry of Interior, that during his first 100 days in office Egyptians had committed 1.5 million traffic violations.
That figure might not be a surprise to Cairo's drivers – or pedestrians – but there was no indication of how it was calculated. As well as obeying the laws of the road, he also urged Egyptians to stop littering, another ambitious demand.
Mr Morsi has won plaudits abroad for a more ambitious foreign policy than many expected. He balanced overtures to regional pariahs like Iran with strong attacks on President Bashir al-Assad of Syria.
By proposing a new "quartet" of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran to tackle the Syrian crisis, he seemed to be restoring Cairo to its historical but long-lost place at the centre of the Arab world.