Mayor Daniel Lurie today said that President Trump simply called him — no go-betweens or consigliere required — and told him there would no longer be a deployment of federal troops to San Francisco.

The president simply dialed the mayor up and talked at him. If they decide to make this into a “Saturday Night Live” sketch, I suggest Lurie be played by this guy .

And, just like that, a daylong crisis and flood-the-zone news cycle across the Bay Area regarding the imminent deployment of border protection agents to the region was quelled. Or not: Oakland mayor Barbara Lee said the president didn’t call her. Lurie and other local leaders are taking the president’s words to mean that the rest of the Bay Area will be spared — but there was no overt pledge regarding that.

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