Trump Calls Off Plans to Send Troops to San Francisco
“…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.”
President Donald Trump announced he would delay sending the National Guard to San Francisco, CA, after receiving phone calls from friends.
Trump wrote on Truth Social:
The Federal Government was preparing to “surge” San Francisco, California, on Saturday, but 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. I told him I think he is making a mistake, because we can do it much faster, and remove the criminals that the Law does not permit him to remove. I told him, “It’s an easier process if we do it, faster, stronger, and safer but, let’s see how you do?” The people of San Francisco have come together on fighting Crime, especially since we began to take charge of that very nasty subject. Great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others have called saying that the future of San Francisco is great. They want to give it a “shot.” Therefore, we will not surge San Francisco on Saturday. Stay tuned!
BREAKING
President Trump says he is not going to attempt to deploy the National Guard to San Francisco after a conversation with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie.
The president says he has also spoken to SalesForce CEO @Benioff and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. pic.twitter.com/MPjH1Qq3TX
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 23, 2025
There have already been clashes in Alameda as federal agents arrived at the Coast Guard Station:
Protesters early Thursday flooded the roadway along the lone entrance to the Coast Guard’s installation on the Oakland Estuary, where more than 100 federal agents were reportedly expected to arrive as part of the next phase of Trump’s immigration-enforcement campaign. Masked federal agents in U.S. Border Patrol bulletproof vests forced their way through the crowd, as marchers held signs declaring “No ICE or Troops in the Bay,” and “Move ICE to get out of the bay.”
“Get out the way, because once we go, we’re not stopping,” one masked agent told protesters before a vehicle started moving slowly through the crowd. “I’m telling you now, this is a warning. We’re not stopping.”
The Mercury News claimed “a demonstrator in religious garb was shot directly in the face with pepper spray, leaving his chin bloodied.”
However, I do not know if the person or anyone else provoked the agents.
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Sometimes the flex is the best deterrent.
Hopefully the collective left will soon realize that they are outnumbered, but I’m not holding my breath nor disposing of my firearms.
Good. Let the progressives die in their city of poo.
Trump has called off the deployment…for now. However he has still left the proverbial sword hanging above Lurie’s head. I further suspect the CEO’s have quietly informed Lurie that if he doesn’t get a handle on the city, they’ll pick up stakes and leave.
A peaceful protest is one thing.
Obstruction of justice by interfering with law enforcement is a felony.
One thing is not like the other. FAFO.
Yes, exactly.
As for the city’s threat to arrest federal LEOs, it turns out not to be the big deal it sounded like. They said they would not interfere in any way with any federal operation, and would not attempt to arrest federal officers while they’re working. Rather they would review video, see if any of the officers are — in their opinion — violating the law (e.g. by using excessive force) and issue summonses for them at a later time. Of course if they do this the officers will immediately move to remove the cases to federal court, where they will have qualified immunity unless they really have messed up badly.
Interesting that SF leadership is putting themselves onstage and squarely responsible for success or failure. Perhaps there’s reason for some hope in SF…but the proof is in the pudding.
Mayors have a duty to protect their communities from lawlessness and violence. That includes protecting federal personnel and facilities from violent attacks. If they can’t, or won’t because it doesn’t fit their political agenda, that duty falls to the governors. If they can’t or won’t fulfill that duty, it falls to the president and the federal government.
If the mayors and governors were carrying out the duties they were elected and are obligated to do, it wouldn’t be necessary to surge federal agents or troops to do it for them.
If the mayor steps up and wants to carry out his duty to the residents of his city, even if belatedly, good on him and I wish him success.
But the citizens still need to ask themselves “What took so long?” come election time.
the real reason:
b/c there are still soooo many blmplo in the military the fear is the bath houses would be overfilled with “joy”
SF under control of fentanyl cartel. More fentanyl deaths than covid fatalities. While oakland celebrates black-on-black violence as some kind of “resistance” against systemic racism, shooting each other in the park on Juneteenth. Relocate out or remain and enjoy the decline. Office buildings getting sold for land value now.