Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff backed President Trump on sending in the National Guard after helping to fund the protest-industrial complex.
last week, Benioff said Trump should deploy the National Guard to San Francisco, where Salesforce is headquartered, to clean up the city overrun with crime.Dallas ICE attack suspect believed he had radiation sickness and practiced shooting, records show“We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it,” Benioff said of the federal troops, adding that he “fully supports the president” and thinks Trump is “doing a great job.
” Trump is turning to the National Guard as both a crime-fighting force and a riot response squadron for quelling the nationwide uprisings against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, namely in sanctuary cities. The anti-ICE unrest alsoconference in downtown San Francisco, a large-scale event requiring expansive security services. In the interview, Benioff bemoaned that he has to pay out of pocket for hundreds of off-duty police officers to patrol the area around the convention. “You’ll see. When you walk through San Francisco next week, there will be cops on every corner,” Benioff said. “That’s how it used to be.” FILE – California National Guard are positioned at the Federal Building, June 10, 2025, in downtown Los Angeles. Benioff’s call to restore law and order signifies a political about-face for the left-leaning billionaire and his philanthropic work., a corporate philanthropy model in which companies that take the pledge commit at least one percent of profits to charitable causes, preferably with, acts as a corporate giving pipeline directing the flow of funds to such social justice initiatives. Since its inception, Pledge 1% hasof Pledge 1%’s infrastructure to the Tides Foundation, one of the largest left-wing grantmaking operations in the U.S., responsible for funding agitation-style activism. “It’s now managed by Tides and they work with one-on-one and tell you exactly what to do,” Salesforce’s chief philanthropy officer, Ebony Beckwith,, which describes its takeover of Pledge 1% as the venture’s fiscal sponsor and “thought partner,” Tides administers donor-advised funds, or charitable investment accounts, on behalf of these companies and offers financial guidance on “how/where to invest their philanthropic dollars.”of left-of-center organizations, has financed various activist activities connected to political upheaval, including giving grants to pro-Palestinian groups that stoked widespread chaos on major U.S. college campuses in 2023.“Salesforce’s funneling of funds through Tides is precisely how corporate philanthropy can feed the protest-industrial complex,” said Seamus Bruner, the director of research at the Government Accountability Institute., the company’s 501 offshoot, directly gave various Tides entities a total of $27.4 million in grant money, according to, though those donations were earmarked for a wide range of vaguely described causes, such as “employment opportunities,” “general support,” “youth development,” and “solving homelessness.”that he is “doubling down on San Francisco” and that Salesforce is investing $15 billion over the next five years to “build a greater, safer city for everyone.” Through a private-public partnership with San Francisco, an additional $1 million will cover hiring bonuses for newly enlisted police officers, Benioff However, he backtracked on welcoming federal intervention in San Francisco, saying that public safety is “first and foremost, the responsibility of our city and state leaders.” “Whether Mr. Benioff intended it or not, his firm has helped bankroll the very networks now roiling cities,” Bruner told the. “His recent call, which he has since softened, for President Trump to deploy the National Guard in San Francisco underscores how politically fraught this all has become.” In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff speaks at a luncheon in San Francisco. heart on Trump and his administration’s agenda. Salesforce did not respond to a request for comment.hosted by King Charles. As the Salesforce head was quoted as saying in the New York Times, Benioff repeatedly told Trump, “How grateful for everything he’s doing.” A number of Silicon Valley playmakers have lined up in a similar fashion to heap public praise upon the president, rubbing elbows with him at high-profile events. Apple CEO Tim Cook gifted Trump
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