Trump Calls Off ‘Surge’ In San Francisco After Mayor Lurie Promises Progress

President Donald Trump and San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie have reached a last-minute agreement to call of the deployment of the National Guard, allowing Lurie the chance to restore law and order in the embattled city plagued by open-air drug use, homelessness and crime.

On Truth Social, Trump announced “friends of mine who live in the area called last night to ask me not to go forward with the surge in that the Mayor, Daniel Lurie, was making substantial progress. I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around.”

POLITICO reports:

Lurie said in a statement that Trump reached out on Wednesday night, hours after the mayor delivered a speech warning of an imminent federal show of force, and “told me clearly that he was calling off any plans for a federal deployment in San Francisco.” Lurie said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem affirmed that in a followup call.

“Having the military and militarized immigration enforcement in our city will hinder our recovery,” Lurie said in a statement. “We appreciate that the president understands that we are the global hub for technology, and when San Francisco is strong, our country is strong.”

The showdown in California between President Trump, Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta has played out in the courts and on the streets of Los Angeles.

Last June, the Trump administration deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles, followed by the U.S. Marines, after Democrats deployed their union activists and NGO agitators to combat federal law enforcement.

Since January, AG Bonta has filed over three dozen lawsuits against the Trump administration and the California tax payers are paying for it through a $50 million Newsom-approved legal slush fund.

Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit sided with the Trump administration against Governor Newsom in the deployment of the National Guard to support federal immigration efforts in California.

After President Trump announced the surge in San Francisco, Marc Benioff. Salesforce founder, owner of Time magazine, and a prominent Democrat donor, responded on X that he supported Trump’s warning of federal deployment in San Francisco to restore law and order. He, after backlash from his Democratic kin, later apologized. The apology came too late for venture capitalist Ron Conway who resigned from the Salesforce foundation board in protest.

Benioff is now leading a campaign to refund the police and announced a $1 million donation to support the San Francisco Police Department

Refund the police. @SFPD pic.twitter.com/ibDnezw0MZ

— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) October 16, 2025

For now, the Trump administration has reached an agreement with Mayor Lurie and business leaders to “give it a shot” to clean up the streets of San Francisco, but as the president advises, “Stay tuned!”