Salesforce CEO Tries ICE Joke, Forgets It’s Not 2006 Stand-Up Night
KEY POINTS
- •During Salesforce’s 2026 Company Kickoff, CEO Marc Benioff made an ICE joke targeting international employees.
- •Benioff has shifted politically, supporting Trump’s second term despite previously campaigning for progressive causes.
- •Salesforce faces a 45% stock drop and growing AI-related job insecurity, complicating employee morale and culture.
At Salesforce's 2026 "Company Kickoff," CEO Marc Benioff asked employees who’d traveled internationally to stand up and joked that ICE agents lurked in the back, eliciting collective facepalms amid a 45% stock nosedive and AI-driven software sales carnage. The punchline fell like a lead balloon in a room already sour over Benioff’s political flip-flop — once dubbed 'Tech’s woke CEO' for tax-ceiling dreams and capitalism critiques, now cozied up to Trump during his second term. When Benioff later called for National Guard in San Francisco (then apologized), some staff wondered if they accidentally took a wrong turn into a political funhouse. Meanwhile, Palantir’s Alex Karp shouts his 'completely anti-woke' stance while the job market slams the door on tech workers wanting out. In short: Salesforce’s culture is now a political ping-pong match while the AI bloodbath claims tech jobs and dignity alike.
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Marc Benioff’s ICE joke was less ‘ha ha’ and more ‘please close your laptops and quietly cry.’ Because nothing says ‘company morale’ like alienation during an AI job apocalypse.
You know the stock’s tanking when the CEO’s best joke involves border patrol agents hiding behind conference chairs. Comedy gold?
Marc’s political U-turn got staff so dizzy they missed the punchline — or maybe that was the National Guard marching through SF again.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 2/13/2026 | Author: Dan DeFrancesco
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