President Donald Trump has had a change of heart after his “friends” asked him not to deploy federal troops to San Francisco.

The president wrote in a Truth Social post on Thursday that he has—for now—called off his plans to deploy military or National Guard troops to the California city as part of his so-called crime crackdown.

Trump, 79, wrote that “great people” including tech leaders Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff asked him to stall his efforts.

“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,” he wrote.

Trump said Lurie, 48, asked “very

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