January 14, 2023:
"[He] saw the world through the filter of other people's weaknesses. He saw people through their physical and intellectual shortcomings, or through oddities in the way they talked or dressed. He defended himself by ridiculing others."
This is one of Michael Wolff's descriptions of Trump. But it applies well to my father, in the handful of times we met.
I especially resent the way he treated his young son. Wolff's description concludes this way: "It sometimes seemed that his only option, other than outright scorn, was to make [his young son] invisible to him." Limit that quote to scorn and the nail's head is hit.