Billionaire Marc Benioff apologizes for saying troops should be deployed to San Francisco [View all]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/17/marc-benioff-apologizes-san-francisco-national-guard
Salesforce CEO faced intensifying backlash after saying national guard will make California city safer
Marc Benioff, the billionaire CEO of Salesforce and owner of Time magazine, apologized on Friday for saying he supported Donald Trump sending national guard troops to San Francisco.
Benioff, who has been facing intensifying backlash in California, said in a post that after he listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials
I do not believe the National Guard is needed to address safety in San Francisco.
He said his earlier comments came from an abundance of caution around his companys major annual conference called Dreamforce, which took place this week. I sincerely apologize for the concern it caused. Its my firm belief that our city makes the most progress when we all work together in a spirit of partnership.
The executive of the cloud-based software firm had expressed support for the federal deployment in an interview with the New York Times last week, saying: We dont have enough cops, so if they can be cops, Im all for it. The newspaper said he had made clear he avidly supported President Trump
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It's really ugly what happens to men's brains when they get too much money.