Daniel Lurie is taking exactly the right approach to Trump
Published Jun. 17, 2025 • 10:00am
The San Francisco Standard
https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/06/17/lurie-trump-newsom-silence/
A dear friend once shared some wisdom his father had taught him: You can be right, or you can get what you want. He was counseling me against making myself feel good by mouthing off in a dispute with a superior, saying that instead I should figure out how to achieve the best outcome for myself — the two actions being mutually exclusive.
I have thought about that advice in regard to Mayor Daniel Lurie’s refusal to provoke Donald Trump, going so far as to not even allow the president’s name to pass his lips.
So many San Franciscans undoubtedly would love to hear or see Lurie go after the odious Trump, as California Gov. Gavin Newsom has done recently and House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has done many times. (Her on-camera shredding of Trump’s just-completed State of the Union address in 2020 was an act of protest for the ages.)
Instead, Lurie, with the discipline of a funny-hatted guard at Buckingham Palace who won’t make eye contact with an annoying tourist, steadfastly refuses to poke the orange-hued bear.
And while it would feel awfully good to witness the mayor, a generous, big-hearted, honorable man, teeing off on the opportunist in the Oval, Lurie is right to keep his eye on the prize, which is not giving Trump any special excuses to target San Francisco.
More to the point, Lurie’s strategy seems to be working — at least as well as can be expected.
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