President Donald Trump won’t deploy federal troops to San Francisco after all, he and city Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Thursday.
Trump shared the news on Truth Social, saying he and Lurie spoke on the phone Wednesday night after news broke that the president had dispatched more than 100 federal agents to a nearby Coast Guard base, putting the city on alert for aggressive crime crackdowns and immigration raids.
“The Federal Government was preparing to ‘surge’ San Francisco, California, on Saturday, but friends of mine who live in the area called last night to ask me not to go forward with the surge,” Trump wrote, saying he agreed to let Lurie address the city’s crime rate ― which is already at its lowest point in decades.
Trump said San Francisco Bay Area tech CEOs Jensen Huang of NVIDIA and Marc Benioff of Salesforce were among those who called him. Benioff was met with immense outrage earlier this month for saying Trump should send the National Guard to San Francisco. The Salesforce CEO, who primarily lives in Hawaii, returned with an apology a week later.
Trump said he agreed to let Lurie tackle the city’s issues on his own, even though he thinks that’s a bad idea.
