U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he hosts a Rose Garden Club lunch at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 21, 2025.
President Donald Trump said in a post on Thursday that the National Guard was preparing to "surge" San Francisco, but he was swayed by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Salesforce Marc Benioff and others to hold off on the deployment.
Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he also spoke with Democratic Mayor Daniel Lurie, who "was making substantial progress" on crime.
"Great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others have called saying that the future of San Francisco is great," Trump wrote.
The reversal marks a major political win for the city of San Francisco and Lurie, who is in his first term.
"The president told me clearly that he was calling off any plans for a federal deployment in San Francisco," Lurie said in a statement. "Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem reaffirmed that direction in our conversation this morning."