Trump cancels federal deployment in San Francisco
President Donald Trump will not be deploying federal troops to San Francisco after all, he and the city’s mayor, Daniel Lurie, announced Thursday.
Trump shared the news on Truth Social, saying he and Lurie spoke by phone Wednesday night after it emerged that the president had sent more than 100 federal agents to a nearby Coast Guard base, putting the city on alert for aggressive anti-crime measures and immigration raids.
“The federal government was preparing to ‘surge’ San Francisco, California, on Saturday, but friends of mine who live in the area called me last night asking me not to go ahead with the surge,” Trump wrote, saying he had agreed to let Lurie address the city’s crime rate, which is already at its lowest point in decades.
Trump said San Francisco Bay Area technology CEOs Jensen Huang of NVIDIA and Marc Benioff of Salesforce were among those who called him. Benioff was met with immense outrage earlier this month for saying Trump should send the National Guard to San Francisco. The Salesforce CEO, who primarily lives in Hawaii, returned with an apology a week later.
Trump said he agreed to let Lurie address the city’s problems on his own, even though he thinks it’s a bad idea.
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“I spoke with Mayor Lurie last night and he asked me, very kindly, to give him a chance to see if he could change things,” Trump continued. “I told him that I think he is making a mistake, because we can do it much faster and remove the criminals that the Law does not allow him to remove.”
Lurie also posted about the conversation, saying Trump called him and told him “clearly” that he was canceling plans for a federal deployment to San Francisco. He added that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reaffirmed this to him Thursday morning.
Lurie’s statement did not attack Trump, but he made clear that he opposed any military presence in the city.
“We have work to do, and we would appreciate continued partnerships with the FBI, DEA, ATF, and US Attorney to get drugs and dealers off our streets, but having the military and militarized immigration enforcement in our city will hinder our recovery,” he wrote.
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He spoke more critically of Trump’s plans at a news conference Wednesday before his call.
“This doesn’t make our city safer, it terrifies our communities,” Lurie said of the federal deployment in the city. “We don’t know exactly what the federal government is planning in San Francisco and throughout the Bay Area, but we do know that this federal administration has a playbook in cities across the country.”
In recent months, Trump has attacked Democratic-led cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, deploying, or attempting to deploy, National Guard troops and other federal agents.