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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).