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Spencer Pratt Plays Coy After POTUS Backs His Wild L.A. Mayor Run

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Spencer Pratt awkwardly dodged fully embracing President Donald Trump’s support Wednesday after Trump publicly praised the former reality TV star’s wild campaign for Los Angeles mayor.

“Oh, I’d like to see him do well. He’s a character,” Trump told reporters while speaking at Joint Base Andrews.

“I don’t know him. I assume he probably supports me. Does he support me?” Trump asked.

“I heard he does. I heard he’s a Big MAGA person. He’s doing well.”

The endorsement instantly created an awkward balancing act for Pratt, who is running as a Republican in one of the country’s deepest blue political strongholds while simultaneously insisting he is not part of the MAGA movement.

Rather than fully embracing Trump’s comments, Pratt quickly tried threading the needle.

“Everybody wants me to succeed because LA is the most important city in the country,” Pratt told TMZ.

“The only support I need is from moms that wanna feel safe in Los Angeles. I’m laser-focused on that.”

The former “Hills” star has spent months trying to position himself as a political outsider fueled by anger over the destruction of his Pacific Palisades home during the January 2025 wildfires.

Pratt and his wife, Heidi Montag, lost their home during the disaster that destroyed thousands of structures across Los Angeles County.

The fires became the driving force behind Pratt’s increasingly aggressive attacks on Democratic Mayor Karen Bass and the broader political leadership running Los Angeles.

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Trump also used the exchange with reporters to attack California’s election system while discussing Pratt’s odds.

“I don’t know if, you know, if you have a rigged vote out there,” Trump said. “The votes are rigged. You have a really rigged vote in California.”

Trump specifically blasted the state’s mail-in voting system.

“They send out 38 million votes. Nobody knows where they’re going,” Trump claimed.

“If we had Jesus Christ come down and count the votes, I would have won California because I do great with Hispanics. But it’s a rigged vote.”

Trump then described California as “one of the most dishonest states.”

Pratt’s campaign has increasingly leaned into viral internet theatrics and outrage-driven messaging rather than traditional political strategy.

One of his most talked-about campaign videos spoofed “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” theme song while mocking Los Angeles leadership over the wildfire response.

In the AI-assisted parody video, Pratt rapped about losing his Pacific Palisades home before ending up at the luxurious Hotel Bel-Air.

Pratt even spray paints, ‘They let us burn!’ on a barricade wall before arriving at the hotel during the video.

“I moved to my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit at my throne as the Prince of Bel-Air,” Pratt said at the end of the clip.

“Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down,” he captioned the post with lyrics from the Will Smith hit.

Pratt has also built his campaign around hardline positions on homelessness, drug addiction and street crime.

He has repeatedly called for stricter enforcement policies, mandatory treatment programs and expanded incarceration for repeat offenders.

During a recent mayoral debate, Pratt directly attacked city leaders over what he described as a refusal to address addiction alongside homelessness.

“The reality is no matter how many beds you give these people, they are on super meth, they are on fentanyl,” Pratt said.

Karen Bass, meanwhile, has accused Pratt of exploiting public frustration and anger for political attention.

“I think that he is tapping into a general sense of anger that people have, not just in Los Angeles, but in many other places around our country,” Bass said during an appearance on MSNBC.

Pratt intensified his attacks this week as another dangerous wildfire erupted near Los Angeles. The wind-driven Sandy Fire broke out Monday near Simi Valley.

According to the Associated Press, more than 17,000 people were placed under evacuation orders while roughly 1,400 acres burned.

Pratt used the fire to accuse Bass of failing to properly prepare the city after the Palisades disaster.

“While Karen Bass is worried about getting meth-heads new grills, the LAFD has 3 dozen LESS firefighters than we had when the Palisades Fire hit,” Pratt wrote on X. “Folks, you need to vote like your life depends on it, because it does.”

Bass recently went viral recently after discussing homeless drug users needing dental care.

“How many people that you meet that are unhoused don’t have teeth at all?” Bass asked during a candidate forum.

“They don’t have teeth. Why? Because meth rots your teeth. You can’t succeed without teeth.”

The remarks immediately triggered backlash online. During a later interview with ABC7, Bass defended the comments and argued the services already exist through Medi-Cal.

“So, when I say comprehensive healthcare, it’s actually what people can get from Medi-Cal,” Bass said. “We already pay for it.”

Bass also defended her broader homelessness strategy during the interview while arguing the city inherited years of failures before she took office.

“We have thousands of people who are mentally ill and addicted on the streets,” Bass said.

“And pretending that we can just arrest our way out of this problem is not realistic.”

Bass argued the city needed both enforcement and expanded treatment programs.

“We have to get people housed, we have to get people treatment, and yes, we also have to deal with public safety,” she said.

The mayor also pushed back against accusations that Los Angeles leadership ignored warnings before the Palisades disaster.

“There’s no question mistakes were made,” Bass said. “But this city went through one of the worst natural disasters in its history.”

Bass has defended her record repeatedly while acknowledging the city still faces major homelessness and addiction problems.

During a recent CNN interview, Bass admitted she had failed to meet earlier promises about ending street homelessness by 2026.

“Well, basically, when I said that, it was at the beginning of my term,” Bass said.

“I didn’t anticipate some of the bureaucratic barriers that I would experience.”

If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two candidates will advance to a November runoff election.

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