{"id":35575,"date":"2025-10-17T20:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/marc-benioff-apologizes-after-saying-trump-should-send-troops-to-san-francisco\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T20:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:51:19","slug":"marc-benioff-apologizes-after-saying-trump-should-send-troops-to-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/marc-benioff-apologizes-after-saying-trump-should-send-troops-to-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Benioff apologizes after saying Trump should send troops to San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68f2a39a1c1f80efbec5d449?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Marc Menioff at the World Economic Forum\"\/><figcaption>Marc Benioff has apologized for his National Guard comments<\/p>\n<p>Halil Sagirkaya\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Marc Benioff apologized for saying Donald Trump should call the National Guard into San Francisco.<\/li>\n<li>He said his earlier remarks were made &quot;from an abundance of caution&quot; for safety at the Dreamforce conference.<\/li>\n<li>The Salesforce CEO says he remains &quot;fully committed to a safer, stronger San Francisco.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, in a post on X, apologized for suggesting President Donald Trump should call the National Guard into San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Having listened closely 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 needed to address safety in San Francisco,&quot; Benioff wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My earlier comment came from an abundance of caution around the event, and I sincerely apologize for the concern it caused,&quot; he added. &quot;It&#039;s my firm belief that our city makes the most progress when we all work together in a spirit of partnership. I remain deeply grateful to Mayor Lurie, SFPD, and all our partners, and am fully committed to a safer, stronger San Francisco.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Benioff has said this year&#039;s Dreamforce, the company&#039;s annual conference, was the largest in its history, with more than 50,000 attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the conference, Benioff made repeated references to safety, and at one point said the company hired hundreds of its own security personnel.<\/p>\n<p>His initial comments urging the president to call the National Guard into the city were made during an interview with The New York Times that was published on October 10.<\/p>\n<p>When reached by Business Insider, Salesforce declined to comment further than Benioff&#039;s remarks. Salesforce has yet to respond to whether there&#039;s been a major safety-related incident at a Dreamforce conference.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Benioff threatened to move Dreamforce outside San Francisco if that year&#039;s event was affected by what he called &quot;the current situation with homelessness and drug use.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Benioff later that year announced Dreamforce would return in 2024 due to &quot;new standards with outstanding safety measures, cleanliness, and hospitality&quot; in partnership with the city.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Benioff has apologized for his National Guard comments Halil Sagirkaya\/Anadolu via Getty Images Marc Benioff apologized for saying Donald Trump should call the National Guard into San Francisco. He said his earlier remarks were made &quot;from an abundance of caution&quot; for safety at the Dreamforce conference. The Salesforce CEO says he remains &quot;fully committed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}