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Tech billionaire Marc Benioff changes tone toward the president Donald Trump saying he “fully” supports the president and is now calling on him to send the National Guard to Benioff's hometown of San Francisco.
“We don't have enough police officers, so if [the National Guard] They can be police officers, I’m all for it,” Benioff said in an interview with The New York Times.
“I fully support the president,” he added. “I think he's doing a great job.”
His comments come a week before his annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. He complained to the Times that he has to pay out of his own pocket every year for police officers on duty to provide security in the convention area.
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Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce Inc., delivers the keynote address at the Dreamforce 2024 conference in San Francisco, California, USA, on Tuesday, September 17, 2024. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“You'll see. When you walk through San Francisco next week, there will be cops on every corner,” he promised. “It was like that before.”
The friendly words for Trump are a U-turn for the California billionaire, who has spent tens of millions of dollars in recent years. to left-wing activist groups. Benioff's company Salesforce also champions transgender ideology.
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Between 2022 and 2024 alone, Salesforce donated more than $23 million to the left-leaning Tides Foundation. Salesforce also created the Pledge 1% program, a model that encourages corporations to donate 1% of their capital, product, profits and employee time to charity.
President Donald Trump sat opposite Benioff at King Charles's state dinner at Windsor Castle last month. (Alex Brandon/Associated Press)
Salesforce has transitioned the program to the Tides Foundation, which has been managing Pledge 1% funds since at least 2019. Salesforce says at least 9,000 companies have signed up for the program since its inception.
Salesforce also donated $1.5 million to the liberal dark money group New Venture Fund. Report from Washington Equizor says the organization has ties to a Palestinian terrorist group.
In addition to financing, Benioff's company used its own resources to promote transgender activism, uses his social media accounts to celebrate transgender athletes and advocate for transgender people in the US military.
San Francisco has struggled mightily with crime and homelessness in recent years. (Getty Images)
Despite his left-leaning resume, Benioff has managed to move closer to Trump's orbit since his election in 2024. Benioff sat opposite Trump at a state dinner hosted by King Charles in Britain last month. According to the Times, he repeatedly told Trump “how grateful I am for everything he does.”
The White House did not immediately respond when contacted by Fox News Digital about any deployment plans National Guard in San Francisco.
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But Trump himself floated the idea in August, telling reporters in the Oval Office that Democrats had “ruined” the city.
“You look at what the Democrats did to San Francisco—they destroyed it. We can clean it up too – we will clean it up too.”
