Marc Benioff, the Salesforce founder who’s long been vocal against Trump, seems to be waking up to the realities of crime in Democrat-run cities like San Francisco. In a recent New York Times interview, he declared himself “all for” sending in the National Guard to clean up the streets, adding that Trump is “doing a great job” as president and that “I fully support the president.”
This shift didn’t sit well with his elite circle. Ron Conway, the Silicon Valley heavyweight and die-hard Democrat donor, bolted from the Salesforce Foundation board in protest. In his resignation email, Conway blasted Benioff: “It saddens me immensely to say that with your recent comments, and failure to understand their impact, I now barely recognize the person I have so long admired.”
He went on about an “unwanted invasion of San Francisco by federal troops” and accused Benioff of ignoring the fallout from ICE raids on families without criminal records, gerrymandering, and attacks on free speech.
Benioff’s comments came amid growing calls for Trump to deploy troops to restore order in places where local leaders have let chaos reign. But just days after the backlash hit, Benioff issued an apology, saying he regretted the remarks and didn’t mean to endorse military intervention.
Sources close to the matter suggest employee uproar and pressure from leftist allies forced his hand, even as Salesforce eyes a potential contract with ICE to streamline hiring for deportation efforts—raising questions about whether business interests or genuine concern for safety drove his initial stance.
Meanwhile, it’s no secret that outfits like Salesforce have funneled millions through shadowy groups like the Tides Foundation, which bankrolls radical protests and anti-police causes. Tax records show Salesforce poured $27.4 million into Tides from 2022 to 2024 alone, fueling the very unrest Benioff now wants quelled. Could this be part of a larger scheme where tech billionaires play both sides—funding disorder while pretending to care about solutions—only to turn on each other when Trump starts fixing things?
Conway’s exit exposes the fractures in Big Tech’s unified front against real law and order. As one insider put it, these so-called philanthropists are more committed to open borders and unchecked crime than to protecting everyday Americans. Benioff might be starting to see through the fog, but his buddies are still lost in it, clinging to failed policies that keep blue cities in ruins.
