“Inviting Trump to send the National Guard here is not one of those good things. Quite the opposite,” Wiener wrote. “We neither need nor want an illegal military occupation in San Francisco.”
The office of San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie — a moderate Democrat who has been reticent to name or criticize Trump — was more muted, even as Benioff appeared to double down on X by demanding local leaders further fund law enforcement and touting additional police presence for Salesforce’s flagship annual “Dreamforce” conference, slated to begin Tuesday in the city’s downtown.
In a statement to POLITICO, Lurie spokesperson Charles Lutvak called public safety Lurie’s “number one priority” and touted recent statistics showing crime reductions in the city without mentioning Benioff.
Spokespeople for Salesforce did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Spokespeople for Newsom and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, two Democratic behemoths with deep roots in San Francisco, declined to comment on Benioff’s remarks.
Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential contender, has been a leading voice among blue-state politicians resisting Trump’s troop deployments. Earlier this month, he and California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined a lawsuit seeking to stop Trump from relocating National Guard troops stationed in Los Angeles up to Portland, Oregon.
California also sued the Trump administration in June, pursuing an order blocking the president from federalizing state National Guard forces to address immigration-related protests in Los Angeles. A federal judge initially blocked Trump’s deployment, but a Ninth Circuit Appeals Court panel later paused the injunction and left Trump in control of the troops.
White House officials, meanwhile, responded positively to Benioff’s comments.