President Donald Trump is throwing his support behind Spencer Pratt in the Los Angeles mayoral race.
“I’d like to see him do well. He’s a character,” Trump, 79, told reporters on Wednesday, May 20, per a video shared via social media. “I assume he probably supports me.”
Trump asked a person off-camera whether they knew if Pratt supported him, and they replied that they “think so.”
“I heard he does,” Trump continued. “I heard he’s a big MAGA person. He’s doing well.”
Pratt, who is a registered Republican, is running to be the mayor of Los Angeles against incumbent Karen Bass, city council member Nithya Raman and more.
Following Trump’s apparent endorsement of Pratt, Raman, 44, reshared the clip online and highlighted the quote “I heard he’s a big MAGA person.”
Pratt responded to Raman’s post with a GIF of himself rolling his eyes.
The Hills alum announced his candidacy for mayor in January. Pratt exclusively revealed in his Us Weekly cover story that he was inspired to take action after he and wife Heidi Montag lost their home in the Palisades Fire last year. (The couple share sons Gunnar, 8, and Ryker, 3.)
“The only way I see God letting my parents’ house burn down and my house burn down is that God knows it’s the only way to turn me against a system that lets this happen to tens of thousands of people,” he told Us in January. “In a best-case scenario, I would have helped at least 10,000 people to get 70 percent of what they got taken from them. That would be poetic.”
Pratt continued, “Winning the mayor’s race will be a victory for truth and transparency, which is what I’ve been fighting for this whole year. The end goal is the same: to shine a light into the darkness.”
Earlier this month, Pratt declared that if he loses the election, he plans on leaving the City of Angels for good.
“I’m going to win the lawsuit against Gavin Newsom’s state park, and with that money, if I’m the mayor of Los Angeles, I will rebuild,” Pratt told comedian Adam Carolla in a video shared via social media on Saturday, May 16. “If Karen Bass gets reelected or Nithya gets elected, I will be done with trying to live in L.A.”
Pratt and several other property owners filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) for the aftermath of the fire. The lawsuit remains ongoing.
“I’ll take that money from the Newsom state park and the LADWP, and I’ll go somewhere that my kids will not have to see naked zombies,” he continued. “And I can have the last American dream somewhere.”
Pratt shared he would “not rebuild” if anyone else is running the city.
The Los Angeles mayoral election will be held on Tuesday, June 2. If no candidate earns a majority of the vote then, a runoff will be held on November 3.
