Marc Benioff backs Trump, wants National Guard deployed in San Francisco

Tech billionaire Marc Benioff has changed his tune on President Donald Trump, saying he “fully” supports the president and is now urging him to deploy the National Guard to Benioff’s hometown of San Francisco.

“We don’t have enough police, so if… [the National Guard] “I could be a cop, I’m all for it,” Benioff said in an interview with The New York Times.

He added: “I fully support the president.” “I think he’s doing a great job.”

His comments come a week before the annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. He has complained to the Times that he has to pay out of pocket for off-duty police officers to beef up security in the convention area every year.

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“You’ll see. When you walk through San Francisco next week, there will be cops on every corner,” he promised. “That’s how it used to be.”

However, Trump’s friendly words represent a dramatic change of face for the California billionaire, after he spent recent years funneling tens of millions of dollars toward left-wing activist groups. Benioff’s company, Salesforce, also advocates for transgender ideology.

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Between 2022 and 2024 alone, Salesforce donated more than $23 million to the left-wing Tides Foundation. Salesforce also created the “Pledge 1%” program, a model that encourages companies to donate 1% of stock, products, profits, and employee time to charity.

President Donald Trump sat across from Benioff at King Charles’ state dinner at Windsor Castle last month. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)

Salesforce turned the program over to the Tides Foundation, which has been handling 1% pledge funds since at least 2019. Salesforce says at least 9,000 companies have joined the program since its inception.

Salesforce also donated $1.5 million to liberal dark money group New Venture Fund. Reports from the Washington Examiner say the organization has links to a Palestinian terrorist group.

Aside from funding, Benioff has used her own influence to push transgender activism, using her social media accounts to praise trans athletes and advocate for trans people in the US military.

San Francisco has suffered greatly from crime and homelessness in recent years. (Getty Images)

Despite his left-wing appeal, Benioff has managed to move closer to Trump’s orbit since his election in 2024. Benioff sat across from Trump at the state dinner hosted by King Charles in the United Kingdom last month. According to the Times, he repeatedly told Trump “how grateful I am for everything he does.”

The White House did not immediately respond when contacted by Fox News Digital about any plans to deploy the National Guard to San Francisco.

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But Trump himself floated the idea in August, when he told reporters in the Oval Office that Democrats had “destroyed” the city.

“Look at what the Democrats did to San Francisco — they destroyed it. We can clean that up, too — we’ll clean that up, too.”