President Trump said Thursday he will not deploy federal troops to San Francisco, reversing his decision plan to implement Anti-crime and immigration enforcement in the Bay Area.
Trump in a Post on Truth Social He said that his friends had called him and asked him not to go ahead with bounce This came after arguing that the city’s Democratic mayor, Daniel Lurie, was “making enough progress.”
The president said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff were among the “great people” who urged him Do not deploy the National Guard to the city.
He said he spoke to Lurie on Wednesday evening and said the mayor asked him “very nicely” to give him a chance to turn the situation around.
“I told him I think he’s making a mistake because we can do it much faster, and remove criminals that the law doesn’t allow them to,” Trump said. “I told him ‘If we do it it’s an easier process, faster, stronger and safer but let’s see how you do?'”
The president’s public comments came shortly after Lurie Revealed in a post It was reported on the social platform X that Trump canceled plans to deploy federal forces during a phone call.
“In that conversation, the President clearly told me that he is canceling any plans for a federal deployment in San Francisco. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed that direction in our conversation this morning,” Mayer wrote.
Reports emerged earlier this week that the administration had dispatched 100 immigration agents to the city with the groups arriving on Thursday. Lurie and Democratic officials in California criticized this move,
