On April 11, 2026, Trump fired all six Biden-appointed members of the Presidio Trust board, which manages San Francisco's Presidio — a historic 1,500-acre waterfront park and former military base. Chairman Mark Buell received a short email saying the termination was “effective immediately.”
This follows Trump's February 2025 executive order calling the Presidio Trust an “unnecessary governmental entity.” The move is widely seen as motivated by Trump's personal animosity toward Nancy Pelosi, who led the bipartisan effort to create the Presidio Trust in 1996 and has championed the park for decades.
The Presidio is a National Historic Landmark containing over 800 historic buildings and structures, Civil War-era fortifications, and critical ecological habitats. The Trust manages it as a self-sustaining national park site.