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Tech billionaire Marc Benioff is shifting his tone towards President Donald Trump, saying he “totally” helps the president and is now urging him to deploy the Nationwide Guard to Benioff’s residence metropolis of San Francisco.
“We don’t have sufficient cops, so if [the National Guard] could be cops, I’m all for it,” Benioff mentioned in an interview with The New York Instances.
“I totally assist the president,” he added. “I feel he’s doing an excellent job.”
His feedback come every week earlier than his annual Dreamforce convention in San Francisco. He complained to the Instances that he has to pay out of pocket for off-duty cops to bolster safety within the conference space yearly.
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Marc Benioff, chief govt officer of Salesforce Inc., speaks throughout a keynote on the 2024 Dreamforce convention in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)
“You’ll see. While you stroll by San Francisco subsequent week, there might be cops on each nook,” he promised. “That’s the way it was once.”
The pleasant phrases for Trump are an about-face for the California billionaire, nevertheless, having spent current years funneling tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} towards left-wing activist teams. Benioff’s firm, Salesforce, has additionally a championed transgender ideology.
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Between 2022 and 2024 alone, Salesforce donated over $23 million to the left-wing Tides Basis. Salesforce additionally created the “Pledge 1%” program, a mannequin that encourages firms to donate 1% of fairness, product, revenue, and worker time to charity.
President Donald Trump sat throughout from Benioff at King Charles’ state dinner in Windsor Fort final month. (Alex Brandon/The Related Press)
Salesforce kicked this system over to Tides Basis, which has been dealing with the Pledge 1% funds since a minimum of 2019. Salesforce says a minimum of 9,000 firms have joined this system since its 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 hyperlinks to a Palestinian terrorist group.
Apart from funding, Benioff’s firm has used its personal attain to push transgender activism, utilizing its social media accounts to hail a transgender athlete and defend transgender folks within the U.S. army.
San Francisco has struggled deeply with crime and homelessness in recent times. (Getty Photographs)
Regardless of the left-wing resume, Benioff has been profitable in getting nearer to Trump’s orbit since his election in 2024. Benioff sat throughout from Trump on the state dinner hosted by King Charles within the U.Ok. final month. Based on the Instances, he repeatedly instructed Trump “how grateful I’m for the whole lot he’s doing.”
The White Home didn’t instantly reply when Fox Information Digital reached out concerning any plans to deploy Nationwide Guard to San Francisco.
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Trump himself floated the thought in August, nevertheless, telling reporters within the Oval Workplace that Democrats have “destroyed” the town.
“You take a look at what the Democrats have accomplished to San Francisco — they’ve destroyed it. We will clear that up, too — we’ll clear that one up, too.”
