President Donald Trump told The Daily Wire Wednesday morning that he would like to see former reality TV star Spencer Pratt “do well” in his upstart bid to become mayor of Los Angeles.
Trump made the comments when talking to reporters before boarding Air Force One to speak to members of the Coast Guard in Connecticut. Daily Wire White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan asked Trump if he saw any part of himself in Pratt, who is running a surprisingly strong campaign to lead the heavily Democratic city.
“Do you see yourself in him at all? A former reality TV star?” Olohan asked.
“I’d like to see him do well. He’s a character. I don’t know. I don’t know him. I assume he probably supports me,” Trump said. “Does he support me?”
“I think so,” Olohan replied.
“I heard he does,” Trump said. “I heard he’s a big MAGA person. He’s doing well. I don’t know. You know, you have a rigged vote out there, that’s the problem. The votes are rigged. You have a really rigged vote in California. You have all the mail-in ballots, everything else. Very hard to win, because the elections are very dishonest.”
Trump then claimed he would have won California in 2024 if the election had been fair.
“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,” he said, adding that “California’s one of the most dishonest states for voting.”
Pratt, who is running on cracking down on crime and getting homeless people off the streets, is challenging incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and far-Left councilwoman Nithya Raman.
Raman claimed on Saturday that Trump was poised to endorse Pratt.
“Donald Trump is about to endorse Spencer,” she said. “Tonight is the fundraising deadline, and we need to raise more to prove that LA doesn’t want a MAGA Republican mayor who lives in the Bel Air hotel.”
Pratt responded to that post with a GIF of him rolling his eyes during the mayoral debate earlier this month.
https://t.co/c7uJGXz16X pic.twitter.com/Z1DtL8lvya
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) May 17, 2026
Pratt’s campaign has been characterized by viral campaign videos that excoriate the city’s leadership for mismanagement and failures on combatting wildfires, drugs, and homelessness.
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