{"id":317770,"date":"2026-05-15T20:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/317770\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T20:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:51:07","slug":"trump-administration-stacks-sf-presidio-board-with-tech-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/317770\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration stacks SF Presidio board with tech elite"},"content":{"rendered":"

After months of political turmoil surrounding San Francisco\u2019s Presidio Trust board of directors<\/a>, on Thursday, the White House appointed six new members to oversee the national park site, including tech elites and prominent MAGA allies.<\/p>\n

The board<\/a> now includes previous board member Lynne Benioff, the co-chair of Time and wife of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, and Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, a Stanford educator and nonprofit leader and wife of tech billionaire Marc Andreessen. Two people with ties to the Trump administration were also named: Trevor\u00a0Traina, a tech entrepreneur and Republican donor, who served as an ambassador to Austria during Trump’s first term, and James Burnham<\/a>, who previously served as senior associate counsel for Trump and was recently appointed general counsel for\u00a0Elon Musk\u2019s xAI and X.<\/p>\n

The other two seats on the board will be filled by John Bickford, a real estate executive, and Kyle Corcoran, a former Marine and chief financial officer at\u00a0Redpanda, who will hold the veteran\u2019s seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The seventh board seat, which is supposed to be held by the secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, is still vacant and has been for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The move comes just a month after Trump fired all six of the board members\u00a0appointed by then-President Joe Biden. Before firing the board, Trump signed an executive order in February<\/a> that labeled the Presidio Trust an \u201cunnecessary governmental entity\u201d and directed it to reduce spending and staffing.<\/p>\n

The Presidio Trust is the federal agency that manages the 1,500-acre site next to the Golden Gate Bridge. Approximately 9.5 million people each year visit the park, according to its\u00a0website<\/a>. The agency gets its funding by leasing homes, offices, hotels, restaurants and others spaces inside the park. The trust also debuted a new park in 2023, Presidio Tunnel Tops<\/a>. Lynne Benioff was a co-chair of the Presidio\u00a0Tunnel Tops campaign, which raised $98 million for the project, according to the Presidio\u2019s website.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After months of political turmoil surrounding San Francisco\u2019s Presidio Trust board of directors, on Thursday, the White House…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,1693,1692,1229],"class_list":["post-317770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sfglocal","tag-sfgnews","tag-sfgparks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}