{"id":3247,"date":"2025-10-14T06:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/3247\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T06:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:17:14","slug":"elon-musk-demands-trump-send-us-troops-to-san-francisco-for-war-on-drugs-its-the-only-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/3247\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk demands Trump send US troops to San Francisco for war on drugs: \u2018It\u2019s the only solution\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk has backed the deployment of federal troops<\/a> to San Francisco, claiming in a gung-ho post that it is \u201cthe only solution\u201d to the city\u2019s drug problem.<\/p>\n

Musk, who spearheaded mass layoffs through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency<\/a> before he exited the White House in May, said downtown San Francisco is \u201ca drug zombie apocalypse.\u201d<\/p>\n

His remarks follow his departure from the Trump administration<\/a> following a public feud with President Donald Trump and allegations that Musk himself was using drugs<\/a> when he was funneling millions into the Republican\u2019s 2024 presidential campaign. He denied the allegations and said they were \u201clies.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

As the president continues to target Democratic strongholds and is currently locked in a court battle over sending troops into Chicago and Portland, attention has turned to the bohemian California city following recent comments by Marc Benioff, the CEO of software giant Salesforce.<\/p>\n

In an interview published Friday, the San Francisco-native told The New York Times that he supported sending in federal troops to help tackle crime.<\/p>\n

\"Elon<\/p>\n

Elon Musk has backed the deployment of federal troops to San Francisco, claiming it is \u2018the only solution\u2019 to the city\u2019s drug problem (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I\u2019m all for it,\u201d he told the outlet<\/a> from his private jet.<\/p>\n

While San Francisco officials and some residents are vehemently against the idea, Musk is all for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the only solution at this point,\u201d Musk said Sunday in a post on X. \u201cNothing else has or will work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk was responding to a social media post shared by Tom Wolf, a former homeless San Francisco resident and recovering heroin addict, who cited a survey<\/a> that found 61 percent of voters in the city support federal intervention to deport undocumented fentanyl dealers. Including voters who \u201csomewhat agree\u201d with the sentiment, the number rose to 83 percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s how insane it’s been here,\u201d Wolf said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, nobody really wants troops on our streets,\u201d Wolf added in another post. \u201cBut this evolution of Benioff is a direct result of San Francisco continuing to allow (yes, allow) an organized drug dealing network of 500-1k dealers operate unabated in broad daylight for the past decade,\u201d Wolf claimed in another post.<\/p>\n

\"Musk<\/p>\n

Musk said that downtown San Francisco, pictured here in 2023, is \u2018a drug zombie apocalypse\u2019 (AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Benioff has donated more than $1 billion to Bay Area causes in the last 25 years, including toward homelessness initiatives, schools, and hospitals.<\/p>\n

While Musk appeared to agree with Benioff about deploying federal troops, he also criticized the fellow billionaire for supporting a 2018 tax measure that raised money for homelessness services in the city via large corporations.<\/p>\n

\u201cBenioff needs to repeal the catastrophic Prop C that he pushed,\u201d Musk said, referring to the tax measure Proposition C.<\/p>\n

In August, Trump said he was considering deploying federal troops to San Francisco, which he claimed had been \u201cdestroyed\u201d by Democrats.<\/p>\n

In a message directed at Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, San Francisco district attorney Brooke Jenkins warned she would retaliate should they target the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you come to San Francisco and illegally harass our residents, use excessive force or cross any other boundaries that the law proscribes, I will not hesitate to do my job and hold you accountable just like I do other violators of the law every single day,\u201d Jenkins said Saturday in a post on Instagram.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Oregonian city of Portland is awaiting the ruling of an appeals court panel on whether the president can send in federalized troops after a judge ordered a temporary hold on deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk has backed the deployment of federal troops to San Francisco, claiming in a gung-ho post that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[4097,4098,1611,2804,2288,101,103,102,104,106,105,1519],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-downtown-san-francisco","tag-drug-problem","tag-elon-musk","tag-federal-troops","tag-marc-benioff","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","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=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}