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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Sunday responded to President Donald Trump for once again threatening to send the National Guard to San Francisco.
“We’re going to go to San Francisco,” Trump said during an interview with News. “The difference [from Chicago] I mean, I think they want us in San Francisco.”
Newsom disagreed.
“Fact check: no one wants you here,” Newsom wrote in X. “You will ruin one of America’s greatest cities.”
In an awkward moment during the same interview, Trump accidentally praised Newsom.
He said San Francisco was “truly one of the great cities in the world” but “went wrong” 15 years ago.
Newsom was mayor of San Francisco starting in 2004 and left office in early 2011, or almost exactly 15 years ago.
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When Trump threatened to send troops to San Francisco earlier this month, at least one local business leader welcomed the idea…at first.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who was once a Hillary Clinton donor, said the city doesn’t have enough police officers and supported Trump’s plan.
“I fully support the president,” he told The New York Times. “I think he’s doing a great job.”
The comments prompted venture capitalist Ron Conway to resign from the board of directors of the Salesforce Foundation, the company’s charitable organization, saying, “I now barely recognize the person I have admired for so long.”
Benioff later apologized and said his comments were made “out of an abundance of caution.”
“Having listened carefully 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 necessary to address security in San Francisco,” he wrote on X.
He also said his company would give the city $1 million to use as signing bonuses to hire new police officers.
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Trump has sent the National Guard to several cities apparently because of high crime rates, calling Chicago, for example, a crime “hell.” He also threatened to send troops to other cities, including San Francisco.
However, critics say it is targeting cities with Democratic leaders in Democratic states, while ignoring cities with high crime rates and states with Republican leaders.
Some of the cities he has threatened actually have declining crime rates. Newsom shared a report that finds San Francisco’s homicide rate is on track to hit its lowest level since the 1950s.
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Trump also sent troops to Washington, DC, claiming that crime numbers in the city continue to “get worse” and that the situation is “totally out of control.”