President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he has canceled a “surge” of federal troops and agents in San Francisco, California, which was originally scheduled to take place on Saturday.
In a Truth Social statement on Thursday, Trump wrote, “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.”
Trump explained that he talked with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie on Wednesday night and that the Democrat mayor asked Trump to give him an opportunity to try to turn the city around without the federal government intervening.
“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,” Trump continued. “I told him, ‘It’s an easier process if we do it, faster, stronger, and safer but, let’s see how you do?’”
The president said San Francisco residents are coming together to fight crime, especially in light of his administration’s crackdown on crime across the country. Trump noted that Jensen Huang and Marc Benioff, two internet entrepreneurs, called him and told him that San Francisco’s future is “great.”
“They want to give it a ‘shot.’ Therefore, we will not surge San Francisco on Saturday,” Trump stated. “Stay tuned!”
According to Fox 2, Trump had previously threatened to deploy National Guard troops and federal agents to San Francisco to execute Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations as part of the administration’s crackdown in cities like Chicago, Portland, and Los Angeles.
Fox 2 reported that Lurie said Trump’s decision not to deploy a “surge” of federal troops and agents to San Francisco was confirmed by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday.
“I am profoundly grateful to all the San Franciscans who came together over the last several days,” Lurie said in a statement obtained by Fox News. “Our city leaders have been united behind the goal of public safety. And our values have been on full display — this is the best of our city.”
On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump’s statement on Truth Social shows that the president is “willing to work with anyone across the aisle, across the country, to do the right thing and clean up America’s cities.”
“He is genuinely interested in this effort to make our streets safer, to make our cities safe and clean again,” Leavitt added.
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