Trump Fires Board That Oversees Presidio in San Francisco

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/us/trump-presidio-landmark-board-fired.html

Trump Fires Board That Oversees Presidio in San Francisco
All six board members that oversee the national historic landmark were terminated, part of the administration’s efforts to reshape the federal bureaucracy.
By Pooja Salhotra
April 12, 2026, 1:08 p.m. ET


President Trump has fired the board that oversees the Presidio, a national historic site at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge. Jim Wilson/The New York Times

The Trump administration has terminated all six board members of the federal agency that oversees the Presidio, a beloved San Francisco national park that sits at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge.

The Presidio, a 1,500-acre former military base, includes hiking trails, museums, campgrounds, hotels, restaurants, housing and an 18-hole golf course. Some 9.5 million people visit the site annually, according to a 2025 Presidio report, making it one of the country’s most visited national parks.

Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of the House, played a central role in the creation of the trust, and the park is in her district. She told The San Francisco Chronicle, which first reported the terminations, that she was “disappointed” with the firings and said that the Presidio would “continue to be protected by the strength of the legislation which created it.”

The trust has not received a congressional appropriation since 2013 and is funded through rent from its businesses and residents.

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The rapist has designs on the land because of its location

[RandomNumbers]

1. Fuck that fucking fuck

He won't stop until he has destroyed everything good in this country.

[Midnight Writer]

2. I once read that the land the Presidio sits on would be worth billions to a developer.

Surely a coincidence.

[kimbutgar]

3. I bet a judge will overturn that next week

[Irish_Dem]

4. Trump wants that land.

It is a truly beautiful and amazing place.

[moondust]

5. Somehow related to his Alcatraz fantasy?

Same neighborhood.

Trump seeks $152 million to reopen Alcatraz as active prison

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. San Francisco Chronicle:

Paywalled

Bay Area // San Francisco

Trump fires entire San Francisco Presidio Trust board, all Biden appointees

By J.K. Dineen, Staff Writer
April 11, 2026


Visitors hang out in the quad outside the Montgomery Barracks in the Presidio in San Francisco in 2025. The Trump administration has fired all members of the Presidio Trust Board, which oversees the property.
Yalonda M. James/S.F. Chronicle

A year after threatening to dramatically downsize the operations of San Francisco’s Presidio, President Donald Trump has terminated the park’s board of trustees. ... The six trustees, who were all appointed by former President Joe Biden, received letters of termination on Wednesday. The Presidio Trust still has not been informed if new trustees have been appointed.

“The Administration has informed our board members that their appointments to the Presidio Trust board have been terminated,” the trust said in a statement to the Chronicle. “We had been anticipating that we would ultimately receive new board members and are awaiting information on the new appointments. We have a long history of wonderful leaders serving the Presidio, and we look forward to welcoming and working with the new members.”

The Presidio Trust board of trustees is made up of six members who serve at the will of the president and one who is appointed by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior. That board seat has been vacant for several years.

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Presidio Tunnel Tops park visitors walk through the park surrounded by blossoming plants in San Francisco, in 2023.
Michaela Vatcheva/For the S.F. Chronicle

Created by Congress in 1996, the Trust is a federal corporation with a directive to manage and lease property within the Presidio, a 1,500-acre swath of federal land, designated a national historic landmark in 1962.

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April 11, 2026

J.K. Dineen
Reporter
J.K. Dineen covers housing and real estate development. He joined The Chronicle in 2014 covering San Francisco land use politics for the City Hall team. He has since expanded his focus to explore housing and development issues throughout Northern California. He is the author of two books: "Here Tomorrow" (Heyday, 2013) and "High Spirits" (Heyday, 2015).