Adam Schiff
Role at the time: U.S. Senator from California, in a quote-post on his official X account (@SenAdamSchiff)
Statement summary
In a quote-post of a journalist's photograph of Trump looking at a placard about the Kennedy Center, Schiff says that if the President cannot put his name on the Kennedy Center 'he is willing to close it or destroy it,' and that Trump cares more about branding institutions than preserving them. He adds that Congress allocated $257 million to repair the building and should insist the work be done properly.
“If the President can't put his name on it, he is willing to close it or destroy it. He cares more about branding our institutions than preserving them. Congress allocated $257 million to repair the Kennedy Center. It should insist that work be done properly.”
Schiff's own post on the X account his Senate site lists, a quote-post of Aaron Rupar's post of an AFP/Getty photograph by Brendan Smialowski; it is not a reply. The post shows no edits. We did not save an archive copy of the post.
Why we used this label
Schiff's own words say that if the President cannot put his name on the building he is 'willing to close it or destroy it' and that he 'cares more about branding our institutions than preserving them', which criticizes making the building's fate depend on his name. The closest competing label is “Mixed or conditional”, because the post ends by urging Congress to insist that the $257 million repair work be done properly. That loses because the urging is a remedy aimed at the conduct Schiff criticizes, not a materially different position on the recognition condition.