President Donald Trump threatened to send National Guard troops to San Francisco during an interview on Fox News on Sunday, according to a new report.
The New York Times reported that Trump reiterated the threat during an interview on the Fox News program “Sunday Morning Futures" with host Maria Bartiromo. His comments come at a time when the administration is deploying troops to several Democratic-run cities such as Los Angeles, Memphis, and Chicago.
“We’re going to go to San Francisco. The difference is I think they want us in San Francisco,” Trump told Bartiromo on her show.
“San Francisco was truly one of the great cities of the world. And then 15 years ago it went wrong, it went woke,” he said. He added that, “We’re going to make it great.”
Trump appeared to be referencing to comments from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who told The New York Times last week that San Francisco doesn't "have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it,."
Benioff apologized for the comments on Friday.
“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,” Benioff wrote in a post on X.