Marc Benioff backs Trump, wants National Guard deployed in San Francisco

Tech billionaire Marc Benioff is shifting his tune towards President Donald Trump, saying he “absolutely” helps the president and is now urging him to deploy the Nationwide Guard to Benioff’s hometown of San Francisco.

“We do not have sufficient police, so if [the National Guard] might be law enforcement officials, I am all for it,” Benioff stated in an interview with The New York Instances.

“I absolutely assist the president,” he added. “I believe he is doing an amazing job.”

His feedback come per week earlier than his annual Dreamforce convention in San Francisco. He complained to the Instances that he has to pay out of his personal pocket yearly for off-duty law enforcement officials to extend safety within the conference space.

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Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce Inc., speaks throughout a keynote on the Dreamforce Convention 2024 in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, September 17, 2024. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)

‘You may see. “Should you stroll round San Francisco subsequent week, there can be police on each nook,” he promised. “That is the way it was.”

Nonetheless, the sort phrases for Trump are a turnaround for the Californian billionaire, who has funneled tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in recent times against left-wing action groups. Benioff’s firm, Salesforce, additionally has a proponent of transgender ideology.

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Between 2022 and 2024 alone, Salesforce donated greater than $23 million to the left-wing Tides Basis. Salesforce additionally created the “Pledge 1%” program, a mannequin that encourages firms to donate 1% of workers’ fairness, product, earnings and time to charities.

President Donald Trump sat reverse Benioff at King Charles’ state dinner at Windsor Fort final month. (Alex Brandon/The Related Press)

Salesforce transferred this system to the Tides Basis, which has managed the Pledge 1% funds since at the very least 2019. Salesforce says at the very least 9,000 firms have joined this system because the program’s inception.

Salesforce additionally donated $1.5 million to the liberal darkish cash group New Enterprise Fund. Reporting from the Washington Examiner says the group has ties to a Palestinian terrorist group.

Along with funding, Benioff’s firm has additionally used its personal attain to use strain transgender activism, utilizing his social media accounts to salute a transgender athlete and defend transgender individuals within the U.S. navy.

San Francisco has struggled with crime and homelessness in recent times. (Getty Pictures)

Regardless of his left-wing resume, Benioff has managed to get nearer to Trump since his election in 2024. Benioff sat reverse Trump final month on the state dinner hosted by King Charles in Nice Britain. In keeping with the Instances, he repeatedly instructed Trump “how grateful I’m for the whole lot he does.”

The White Home didn’t instantly reply when contacted by Fox Information Digital about any plans to ship the Nationwide Guard to San Francisco.

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Nonetheless, Trump himself floated the concept in August, telling reporters within the Oval Workplace that Democrats have “destroyed” town.

“Have a look at what the Democrats did to San Francisco – they destroyed it. We will clear that up too – we are going to clear that up too.”