Elon Musk joined Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff in his calls for federal troops to be deployed to San Francisco – even as Benioff tried to backtrack on his comments.

In several posts on X to his 227 million followers, Musk – who uprooted his home and Tesla’s headquarters from California to Texas but still has business operations on the West Coast – wrote that deploying the feds to San Francisco would be “the only solution at this point” since “nothing else has or will work.”

The world’s richest man — who had a high-profile role in the White House at the start of the Trump administration — also slammed the city as a “drug zombie apocalypse.” 3

The missives came Sunday after Benioff said National Guard troops could help fight crime in San Francisco.

“We don’t have enough cops, so if

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