Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce Inc., speaks during a keynote at the 2024 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 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. "That’s how it used to be."
The friendly words for Trump are an about-face for the California billionaire, however, having spent recent years funneling tens of millions of dollars toward left-wing activist groups. Benioff's company, Salesforce, has also a championed transgender ideology.
Between 2022 and 2024 alone, Salesforce donated over $23 million to the left-wing Tides Foundation. Salesforce also created the "Pledge 1%" program, a model that encourages corporations to donate 1% of equity, product, profit, and employee time to charity.
San Francisco has struggled deeply with crime and homelessness in recent years. (Getty Images)
Despite the left-wing resume, Benioff has been successful in getting closer to Trump's orbit since his election in 2024. Benioff sat across from Trump at the state dinner hosted by King Charles in the U.K. last month. According to the Times, he repeatedly told Trump "how grateful I am for everything he’s doing."
The White House did not immediately respond when Fox News Digital reached out regarding any plans to deploy National Guard to San Francisco.
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Trump himself floated the idea in August, however, telling reporters in the Oval Office that Democrats have "destroyed" the city.
"You look at what the Democrats have done to San Francisco — they’ve destroyed it. We can clean that up, too — we’ll clean that one up, too."
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