{"id":7731,"date":"2025-10-16T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/7731\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:02:27","slug":"salesforce-ceo-says-national-guard-should-patrol-san-francisco-stunning-his-own-pr-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/7731\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco \u2014stunning his own PR team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc Benioff has long been San Francisco\u2019s liberal-leaning billionaire, the tech executive who funded homeless services, donated<\/a> to the city\u2019s public schools, and hosted Hillary Clinton fundraisers.<\/p>\n

But in a new, wide-ranging phone interview<\/a> with The New York Times from his private plane, Benioff revealed a political transformation that seemed to surprise even his own communications team, despite the fact that Salesforce has hundreds of contracts with the federal government.<\/p>\n

The Salesforce founder declared he \u201cfully supported\u201d President Trump and thought National Guard troops should patrol San Francisco streets. He gushed about sitting across from Trump at a Windsor Castle state dinner, telling the president \u201chow grateful I am for everything he\u2019s doing.\u201d He praised Elon Musk\u2019s government efficiency efforts and said he hadn\u2019t closely followed news about immigration raids or Trump\u2019s attacks on the media.<\/p>\n

The 50-minute conversation reportedly ended after Benioff turned to his public relations executive, apparently noticing her expression. \u201cWhat about the political questions?\u201d he could be heard asking. \u201cToo spicy?\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Benioff\u2019s shift mirrors Silicon Valley\u2019s broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: Will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff\u2019s lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Benioff has long been San Francisco\u2019s liberal-leaning billionaire, the tech executive who funded homeless services, donated to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[5857,2288,2806,2570,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-in-brief","tag-marc-benioff","tag-national-guard","tag-salesforce","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731","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=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}