{"id":216197,"date":"2025-10-11T06:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/216197\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T06:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:57:09","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\/216197\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco &#8212; stunning his own PR team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marc Benioff has long been San Francisco\u2019s liberal-leaning billionaire, the tech executive who funded homeless services, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/07\/us\/california-today-tech-billionaire-adopt-a-school.html\" target=\"_blank\">donated<\/a> to the city\u2019s public schools, and hosted Hillary Clinton fundraisers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in a new, wide-ranging <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/10\/us\/marc-benioff-san-francisco-guard.html\" target=\"_blank\">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 that Salesforce has hundreds of contracts with the federal government. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p>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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,109430,45744,10446],"class_list":{"0":"post-216197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-marc-benioff","10":"tag-national-guard","11":"tag-salesforce"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}