SAN FRANCISCO >> For years, San Franciscans considered him their benevolent, bighearted billionaire.

While other tech titans built private rocket ships and scooped up super yachts, the Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff was known for spreading large sums of money around San Francisco, his hometown. He tended toward the liberal side of Silicon Valley politics. He lectured other business leaders about the importance of helping homeless people instead of complaining about them.

But 2025 seems to have ushered in Benioff 2.0.

The benevolence remains, but the liberal leanings do not. In a wide-ranging interview, Benioff said this week that he avidly supported President Donald Trump and thought National Guard troops should be deployed to San Francisco — an action that city leaders would c

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