Posted on 10/11/2025 12:12:57 PM PDT by DFG
Tech billionaire Marc Benioff seemingly shed his liberal ties and directly clashed with his longtime friend Gavin Newsom by praising the president in a recent bombshell interview.
The CEO of the San Francisco-based software company Salesforce recently confessed to the New York Times that he believed President Donald Trump was 'doing a great job' and that he'd support the National Guard's presence in his city.
'I fully support the president,' Benioff declared.
The CEO, who's also the godfather of the California governor's daughter, supported Trump's controversial call to send the National Guard to US cities.
When speaking about San Francisco, he told the Times: 'We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it'.
Benioff is planning on giving the keynote address at the Dreamforce conference this week in San Francisco.
He said in the interview that he's hired hundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to patrol the convention area, claiming that the city's police force is underfunded.
'You’ll see. When you walk through San Francisco next week, there will be cops on every corner. That’s how it used to be,' he told The Times.
At the end of his interview, the Times journalist noted that Benioff appeared to ask his publicist: 'What about the political questions? Too Spicy?'
Benioff founded the idea for Salesforce in Telegraph Hill, a residential neighborhood in San Francisco, in 1999.
The company has been headquartered there ever since. Benioff boasted in his interview that he doesn't believe anyone has hired more San Franciscans or given more money to the city than he has.
However, since the pandemic, he confessed that he primarily resides in Hawaii but still spends time in California.
Benioff has a long history with Newsom since the governor's tenure as the mayor of San Francisco.
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