Donald Trump said on Thursday that he had cancelled his plans to deploy federal agents to San Francisco, after being dissuaded by Nvidia chief Jensen Huang and Salesforce founder Marc Benioff.
The US president said the federal government “was preparing to ‘surge’ San Francisco” on Saturday, but that he scrapped the plans after receiving calls from the Silicon Valley titans, and also speaking to the city’s Democratic mayor Daniel Lurie.
“Great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others have called saying that the future of San Francisco is great. They want to give it a “shot.” Therefore, we will not surge San Francisco,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.