Joe Soucheray: Trump lacks grace — and permission — in his destruction of East Wing

President Donald Trump’s bulldozing of the East Wing of the White House reveals him to have the aesthetic taste of a mildly successful professional con artist. The Oval Office already lacks only the requirement that all who enter the sanctum must wear grills and large jewel-encrusted chains around their neck with perhaps a clock hanging from it, or a crucifix.

Never has there been a more important man in the world with less class.

A 90,000-square-foot ballroom will be built in place of the demolished East Wing, a ballroom. Did we need a ballroom? It is certain to be grotesque, out of character, out of place, out of this world. Early betting favors the opening-night performance of either Kid Rock or maybe a full card of greased wrestling.

The Rose Garden is gone, replaced by a concrete s