{"id":4637,"date":"2025-10-14T21:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/4637\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:09:34","slug":"elon-musk-calls-for-federal-troops-in-san-francisco-as-salesforces-marc-benioff-tries-to-backtrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/4637\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk calls for federal troops in San Francisco as Salesforce&#8217;s Marc Benioff tries to backtrack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk joined Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff in his calls for federal troops to be deployed to San Francisco \u2013 even as Benioff tried to backtrack on his comments.<\/p>\n<p>In several posts on X to his 227 million followers, Musk \u2013 who uprooted his home and Tesla\u2019s headquarters from California to Texas but still has business operations on the West Coast \u2013 wrote that deploying the feds to San Francisco <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1977277765415321926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">would be \u201cthe only solution at this point\u201d<\/a> since \u201cnothing else has or will work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s richest man \u2014 who had a high-profile role in the White House at the start of the Trump administration \u2014 also slammed the city as a \u201cdrug zombie apocalypse.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tried to backtrack on his calls for National Guard deployment in San Francisco. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The missives came Sunday after Benioff said National Guard troops could help fight crime in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I\u2019m all for it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/10\/us\/marc-benioff-san-francisco-guard.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he told the New York Times<\/a> in an interview published Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Benioff has long been known for his liberal political slant and heavy investments in San Francisco. But during the interview, he appeared to change his tune \u2013 trumpeting his support for President Trump and the recent controversial deployments of National Guard troops.<\/p>\n<p>Since the summer, Trump has sent National Guard forces to Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and Memphis, Tenn., prompting waves of protests and legal action from local Dem officials. <\/p>\n<p>Most of the troops have been pulled from LA, but he has promised to send federal forces to Portland and Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Benioff\u2019s interview quickly stirred backlash as Salesforce prepared to welcome about 50,000 visitors to San Francisco for its annual Dreamforce conference, which started Tuesday and lasts through Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCharlie Gasparino has his finger on the pulse of where business, politics and finance meet\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up to receive On The Money by Charlie Gasparino in your inbox every Thursday.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The exec <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Benioff\/status\/1977506464685285781\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">tried to backtrack on his comments<\/a>, praising San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie in a social media post on Sunday and remarking: \u201cKeeping San Francisco safe is, first and foremost, the responsibility of our city and state leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk quickly weighed in on the matter, arguing that federal troops are needed to crack down on crime in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Several of Musk\u2019s companies have close ties to the city. His AI startup, xAI, has a large San Francisco office, and Neuralink \u2013 his brain-computer chip firm \u2013 recently leased a large property in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk said National Guard troops would be \u201cthe only solution at this point\u201d to crack down on violence in San Francisco. AP<\/p>\n<p>Tesla\u2019s engineering headquarters are still in Palo Alto, near San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Musk and for Benioff\u2019s company, Salesforce, did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s requests for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During his interview with The Times, Benioff reportedly complained \u2013 while en route to San Francisco on his private plane \u2013 that he has to pay for hundreds of off-duty officers to work at the Moscone Center during the Dreamforce convention.<\/p>\n<p>He said San Francisco needs to \u201cre-fund\u201d the police, as the city has struggled to recruit and hold onto officers.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump recently ordered National Guard troops to Portland and Chicago. AP<\/p>\n<p>Benioff said the city should add 1,000 cops to the existing police force of about 1,500.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll see. When you walk through San Francisco next week, there will be cops on every corner,\u201d he was quoted as saying. \u201cThat\u2019s how it used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his social media post on Sunday, Benioff called himself a \u201cfourth-generation San Franciscan\u201d \u2013 though he has mostly lived in Hawaii since the pandemic, according to the Times.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Lurie wrote in a Sunday post on X that \u201ccrime is down 30% and tent encampments are at an all-time low.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He did not comment on Benioff\u2019s remarks or the Dreamforce convention, though he noted that tens of thousands of people are coming to the city \u201cfor concerts, Fleet Week, and the Italian Heritage Parade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what a world-class city looks like, and it all starts with public safety,\u201d the mayor added. \u201cSan Francisco is on the rise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk joined Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff in his calls for federal troops to be deployed to San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[387,1611,2806,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-4637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-elon-musk","10":"tag-national-guard","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","13":"tag-san-francisco-news","14":"tag-sf","15":"tag-sf-headlines","16":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637","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=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}