Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says Trump should send National Guard to San Francisco

[IcyPeas]

Another billionaire for Trump.

Salesforce Tries to Help ICE Boost Its Immigration Force
The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff. The company’s C.E.O., once a progressive tech titan, has embraced President Trump.

Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, shocked San Franciscans last week when he said that he “fully supports” President Trump and wants National Guard troops deployed to their city.

Mr. Benioff’s support of the National Guard ran counter to the city’s famously liberal underpinnings and to his own reputation as a benefactor of progressive causes. San Francisco leaders, already outraged by those remarks, were upset to learn on Thursday that the homegrown company was trying to help Mr. Trump with his immigration crackdown.

Salesforce, which also contracted with ICE under the Obama and Biden administrations, is far from the only tech company helping ICE drastically expand its enforcement efforts under Mr. Trump. Palantir, the Denver-based software company co-founded by the conservative billionaire Peter Thiel, is a major partner of ICE. Microsoft and IBM also have contracts with the agency.

The company’s ICE Slack channel included chatter about Salesforce employees attending a Border Security Expo in April with the hopes of meeting Tom Homan, Mr. Trump’s border czar, to “applaud him on his efforts.”

.... Benihoff has long been considered a liberal benefactor ….. He hosted a fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton when she ran against Mr. Trump in 2016. He funded the campaign for a 2018 city ballot measure to tax businesses, including his own, to support homeless services. He canceled Salesforce travel to Indiana after the state enacted a law that allowed companies to refuse business to L.G.B.T.Q. people on religious grounds.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/salesforce-benioff-ice.html

And then:

https://share.google/w2tFFUSSqbgitQi6J

Democratic donor Ron Conway resigns from Salesforce Foundation over Benioff’s National Guard comments - POLITICO

Venture capitalist Ron Conway said Benioff’s recent calls for National Guard troops in San Francisco left him barely recognizing the person he has so long admired.

....more at link

[usonian]

1. Is he double-dealing?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/13/marc_benioffs_new_dream_force/

Benioff retreats from idea of sending troops in to clean up San Francisco
Salesforce CEO praises Trump before walking back criticism of city's policing

Link to tweet

Which Benioff are we dealing with?
ChatBenioff?

[IcyPeas]

4. He has walked it back somewhat.... after it ballooned into a controversy

He's getting blasted on Bluesky

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, SF Mayor Scrap Event After National Guard Comment | KQED https://share.google/Guf3aQ7QaW97Hmbrf

Benioff has since said that his comments were intended to suggest that San Francisco needs the same level of policing that takes place during Salesforce’s flagship conference, Dreamforce, happening this week in downtown San Francisco. ...

Days after his comments advocating for President Donald Trump to send the National Guard into San Francisco ballooned into a controversy, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was slated to appear at a press event on Monday afternoon with Mayor Daniel Lurie. Then it was cancelled.

The abrupt change came after Benioff, a fourth-generation San Franciscan once viewed as relatively liberal, came under fire over the weekend for praising Trump in an interview with The New York Times and lambasting the city’s approach to combating crime, saying the city should “refund” the police force—....

But Benioff’s comments shocked some city officials and were immediately seized on by other tech giants close to Trump, like Elon Musk, who echoed Benioff’s call to bring the National Guard to San Francisco.

“It’s the only solution at this point,” Musk posted Sunday on X. “Nothing else has or will work.”

On Sunday, the Salesforce CEO elaborated on his remarks on X.

“When I was recently asked about federal resources, my point was this: each year, to make Dreamforce as safe as possible for 50,000 attendees, we add 200 additional law-enforcement professionals — coordinated across city, state, and other partners,” he said in the lengthy post. “It’s proof that collaboration works and a reminder that the city needs more resources to keep San Franciscans safe year-round.”

_______________________________________
Open letter to Marc Benioff:

Dear Marc Benioff
An Open Letter to Marc Benioff from Salesforce employees, alumni, community members, tech workers, San Francisco residents, and our allies.

Read full letter here:
https://dearmarcbenioff.com/
_______________________________________

Funfacts:
-- Also he was at the dinner table at Windsor Castle across from trump.

-- Also Benioff is the godfather to one of Gavin Newsom's daughters. They've known each other since Newsom was the mayor of San Francisco.

[IcyPeas]

2. Oh geez... i dont know.

Has he had a quick change of mind?


.... away to see if there is new updated info.

[blm]

3. Accelerationist.

[usonian]

5. Friday afternoon update

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/benioff-trump-national-guard-sf.html
Salesforce CEO apologizes for saying Trump should send National Guard to San Francisco
Published Fri, Oct 17 20254:08 PM EDT Updated 2 Hours Ago

Key Points

• In a post on X, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he regrets comments he made in support of President Trump sending federal troops to San Francisco.

• “Having listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials, and after the largest and safest Dreamforce in our history, I do not believe the National Guard is needed to address safety in San Francisco,” Benioff wrote.

more verbiage at the site.

So much for SalesFarce

Keeps bad company, anyway.

[IcyPeas]

6. Oh well.. this is good I guess... I hope. Or will trumpf still do it?

I dont really trust any billionaire. They sell their souls for favors and more money.

[Initech]

7. No he shouldn't! Fuck you Marc Benioff!

Fuck Trump, fuck ICE, fuck Tom Homan!

[HAB911]

8. I think he has Luigi Mangione syndrome