The president of United States, Donald Trumphas backed down this Thursday on the deployment of the National Guard in San Francisco after speaking with the city’s mayor and receiving pressure from several technology magnates.
The mayor of Saint Francis, Daniel Luriehas asked Trump to paralyze the deployment to give “an opportunity” to local authorities to “reverse” the situation, although the president has assured him in a call that he is “making a mistake”, since federal forces could “expel the criminals much faster.”
In parallel, the Republican magnate has also spoken with the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, and the CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff, who have told him that “the future of San Francisco is promising.”
“The federal government was preparing for a surge in troops in San Francisco, California, on Saturday, but friends of mine who live in the area called me last night to ask me not to go ahead, given that the mayor, Daniel Lurie, was making substantial progress,” he said in a message published in Truth Social.
“I spoke to the mayor last night and he asked me, very kindly, to give him a chance (…) Prominent people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff and others have called saying that the future of San Francisco is promising. They want to try it. Therefore, we will not intensify the offensive in San Francisco on Saturday,” he concluded.
Lurie has confirmed on social media that during his call with Trump he told him that he was going to cancel “any plan for a federal deployment in San Francisco.” “Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem reaffirmed this in our conversation this morning,” he said.
Likewise, he has criticized that “the presence of soldiers and militarized immigration agents” had “obstructed” life in the city. “We appreciate that the president understands that we are the global center of technology, and that when San Francisco is strong, our country is strong,” he argued.
This comes after a weekend of protests under the slogan ‘No Kings’ in which nearly seven million Americans have taken to the streets in 2,700 locations across the country to show their rejection of the militarization of cities – as in the case of Chicago, Los Angeles or Portland – as well as the immigration policy of the White House tenant.
