President Donald Trump said he is calling off plans to authorize a deployment of National Guard troops to San Francisco after a series of clarifying phone calls Wednesday night with Mayor Daniel Lurie and technology industry leaders.
“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 posted on Truth Social on Thursday. “I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around…They want to give it a ‘shot.’ Therefore, we will not surge San Francisco on Saturday. Stay tuned!”
In the post, Trump said he spoke with “friends” Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, and Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, who were among the “great people” who urged him not to deploy the National Guard.