We typically focus on national politics around here, but I have to pause and cover Spencer Pratt for a moment.

Because this guy is awesome!

There will never be another Donald J. Trump, but Spencer Pratt is giving off strong DJT vibes as he goes head-to-head with Karen Bass in the LA Mayor race.

The similarities are becoming hard to ignore…

An extremely media-savvy political outsider who rose to fame on a hugely successful reality TV show comes out of nowhere with no political experience of any kind and quickly rises up the ranks, challenging the establishment…and winning!

Pratt is still down in the polls to Mayor Bass as of press time for this article, but at this point it would actually surprise me most if he DOESN’T win this election.

I never watched “The Hills” and from what I understand Pratt was kind of the bad boy of that show, the black hat of the show, and again the parallels are inescapable when compared to Donald J. Trump.  Both portrayed as the black hats, both bulls in a China shop, but truth be told both with hearts of gold?  That’s my read.

This ad is absolutely going viral right now, everyone is talking about it:

So good!!

See what I mean?

This guy and his team have all the energy and aura.

Not a politician.

Not an insider.

A guy who is pissed off Los Angeles let his house burn down and then still won’t let him rebuild 2 years later, to say nothing of all the people who were BURNED ALIVE in those fires!

Enough is enough!

Another killer ad here:

And one more here:

He also just recorded a fantastic new interview with David Friedberg over on the ALL IN podcast.

Let me show you a few clips and I think you’ll see what I mean:

This might have been my favorite clip:

Remind you of anyone?

And as always, it’s almost like all of this was scripted from the beginning.

Check out this clip from the 2012 Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump where Trump and Pratt are combined together in one joke:

Flash-forward 14 years and these two guys may single-handedly save Los Angeles and the United States.

Seriously, what are the odds?

Look, I don’t know if this guy has what it takes to be President some day, but I do think he has exactly what it takes to be the best Mayor Los Angeles has ever seen.  Historic turnaround.

If you want to watch the full interview from the ALL IN pod, it’s right here and really good:

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Spencer Pratt: Spencer Pratt, welcome to the All-In podcast. Thank you for having me. You had an unbelievable debate performance the other night. I have so many friends that were texting and people obviously were tweeting about it.

Let’s start with that. How are you feeling after the debate? I just wish it had been like 2 hours or 3 hours because the list of their failures that we didn’t even get to touch on, it’s unbelievable. So, it was

the most fun I’ve had in years because what people don’t realize is they’re pathological liars. So when somebody gets to be on the stage with only facts and the truth, that’s why there’s this incredible response to because everybody that always watches these lying politicians, they know they’re lying and

nobody gets to yell, “They’re lying.” But it was very hard to be respectful because all the lovely Democrat moms that love me, that want to keep supporting me, they asked me to please stay calm, cool, and collected. So the whole time I was doing my best behavior

to not interrupt the lying, which if I hadn’t been tasked with that mission, I would have been like, “Liar, liar.”

Interviewer: A lot of people said they weren’t expecting such a great performance. Like you were so well prepped, so well versed on a lot of the facts on the actions you were going to take. How did

you get ready for the debate? Did you do work to get after this?

Spencer Pratt: Well, thankfully people argue with me all day long in every single media hit that I’ve done for months because they don’t want me to get into the machine. So, every interview I do, unlike these

politicians, it’s opposition. It’s arguing, arguing, arguing. When these, you know, Mayor Bass or Councilwoman Raman talk to the media, they can just lie and then the media people go, “Oh, thank you. Thank you, Mayor Bass. Thank you, Councilman.”

If I say anything, I got to have who was there, what they were wearing, what they had for breakfast. I have to have my information so fact-based and be bulletproof to beat this machine that it’s I debate. All I do is debate people all day long.

Interviewer: You’re held to a higher standard.

Spencer Pratt: Exactly. Challenged all day and all I live in is facts and the truth. And so I called my lawyer who’s representing me in the case against the city and the state and LADWP, one of the most famous lawyers in the world. I said, “Peter, how do you stay so calm when you’re arguing with these liars?”

And he said, “Spencer, I always have the truth.” I was like, “Oo.” I was like, “Okay, I got that.”

Interviewer: Good strategy. Can we for people that don’t know your story and I want to just give you a couple minutes to tell it. Let’s go back to the fires. Where were you and where was your family, your wife, your kids? Where were you guys when these fires kicked off and

how did you end up evacuating? And what was that evening like?

Spencer Pratt: Well, let’s even rewind before the fires. It just shows you that our emergency situation is not the level it needs to be because I didn’t even know that there was this crazy wind weather event. My son had had pneumonia.

So, I was up every night checking his temperature and I’m on my phone a lot. I’m a phone person and I didn’t even know that this was extra dangerous, dry weather. So, that just shows you if you rewind, we weren’t even informed at the level you clearly we should have been.

So, the morning of January 7th, I was doing my normal routine, making my espresso, about to dance to Taylor Swift, “Look What You Made Me Do” on Snapchat, which I’ve done since the Reputation album dropped. And all a sudden, I see our nanny running down the street.

She comes in with our 2-year-old at the time. She’s like, “The workers up the street said there’s a fire on the hill.” Again, this is not crazy. Like, Mayor Bass is like, “We never knew,” but we’re well aware fires happen.

There had just been the Getty fire that everyone ran out of their houses for. I grew up in LA. I’ve been through the fires. They’ve been going on for 30 years. I mean, three weeks before all my friends fought a fire in Malibu episode.

I was even planning on starting my own fire brigade like my friends had and I was talking to Heidi like we need to get a hose, we need to get a truck. And so I was well aware of fires no matter what anybody says. This isn’t a shock.

We also know about Santa Ana winds. So I run up the hill where we hike every day for the last nine years. And I see the smoke, you know, coming from like the Highlands area, which is where Lachman, which we now know the fire was really from seven days earlier and it had been smoldering for a week.

And I see the smoke. I FaceTime my wife. I was like, “Yeah, maybe pack go down to my parents house just to be safe.” Because my parents live in the Palisades. I grew up in the Palisades. It’s the opposite side of where we are.

We’re at the top of the hill next to the state park there by the bluffs, next to the ocean. You would think that’d be safe. So she loads up just diapers, kids clothes, and goes to my mom’s house. I stay up there, you know, FaceTiming every local, what’s going on very confident.

Because I assume I’ve been paying—I don’t have any money because all my money goes to taxes. So I assume all these tax money is firefighters are coming.

Interviewer: Got to be going somewhere.

Spencer Pratt: It’s going somewhere. You know, I was very naive. And I also live next door—again in the debate when Mayor Bass was like he’s lying or that’s not true—there was only one reservoir that was empty.

Ma’am, Mayor Bass, I live next to the one you don’t know existed, the Palisades reservoir. 5 million gallons next door to my house that the fire department would do almost, not weekly, but bi-weekly drills.

They would connect up there. They would make me move cars if they needed to to bring the hoses. I was always saying to my wife, “Well, this is annoying, but gosh, we’re set. They have a thing where the helicopter could dip in there.”

Not the San Andreas reservoir that she was referencing that she lied about and said was for drinking water which obviously if you Google LA Times will show you when it was made it was for wildfire protection that’s why it has cisterns,

that’s why it has helicopter dip sites because it’s for wildfire. So I was very confident. I have a video of myself filming—can’t wait till the helicopters get here—not realizing that they drained that. Janice Quinion of the LA DWP drained

that reservoir in June of 2024. I must have been out at Erewhon when they were emptying it or whatever. So I was very confident in 2025 in Pacific Palisades that pays probably almost what, a quarter of the taxes for

the whole city. I would guess at this point they are not letting the entire town burn to the ground. So I didn’t pack anything. I didn’t, you know, prepare for our house to burn down. I call the fire department directly because I have their number.

I say, “Hey, we just see one truck up here cuz you know if the fire comes around, there’s just this one place of dead brush and if you put water on it, you know, it won’t come and hit all these houses.” And they said, “We have no assets available.”

I’m like, “Whoa, that was scary.” So then my dad comes up, you know, and we got the hose and he’s hosing a hillside and finally I’m like, “Dad, let’s get out of here. You know, firefighters are probably coming.”

Interviewer: And your wife and kids are gone at this point.

Spencer Pratt: They’re at my dad’s house, which ends up now the fires come from Temescal Canyon and it’s crossed over. So, my older sister calls like, “What are your kids doing there? They better get out of there.” I’m like, “What is happening?”

So, now I’m, you know, what? This is insane. It’s like a bad movie. And I never heard any sirens. People, like real locals, will tell you if you talk to me, there were no sirens.

Interviewer: Yeah. I’ve heard this from a lot of friends in the past.

Spencer Pratt: So that was the—if I had heard sirens I would have like started packing things, maybe stayed, but you don’t feel scared if you don’t hear sirens. There’s no sheriffs or LAPD or any emergency vehicles coming up on the street, you know, “Everybody get out of the,” you know, like in a movie.

There was no movie stuff and you know so you always think everything’s like a movie but nothing was like a movie. So then I stay till the fire comes down the hill at 5:00 or 6:00 at night. Again, when she was talking about this wind, Mayor Bass, I’m standing at the top of the Palisades.

I connect to the state park. There were no scary winds. It did not go past 40 miles per hour and it’s now been, you know, even CBS did a great debunk post yesterday, CBS News, with a journalist that was up there that I was correct and I wasn’t lying in the debate and there were planes flying.

Interviewer: Yeah. It moved. It was windy, but it wasn’t…

Spencer Pratt: So, I talked to the chief Bobby Garcia at the US Forest Service about what he thought went sideways the day of, you know, we don’t know because the after-action report has been edited multiple times by Mayor Bass, which she denies, but the LA Times stands by their reporting.

And he said the initial fire wasn’t made skinny. You’re supposed to attack the fire on both sides. And that did not happen because, ready for this? You know what Mayor Bass brought up?

Like, “Oh, there were no planes, no mayor.” Bass, you never called in fixed-air wing support. She never did. You know why? She was in Africa. She was in Africa. And you know who was supposed to do it?

Her deputy mayor, but he was on house arrest. So LA city never even called in fixed-air wing support to drop water. Thankfully, LA County Cal Fire showed up and the US Forest Service. But that’s how out of the loop Mayor Bass was on this.

Interviewer: So when did you find out your house was gone?

Spencer Pratt: I watched it burn on my—first on my security cameras. I watched my son’s bed burn in the shape of a heart, which is the most spiritual crazy like shape of a heart coming through the bottom of his bed.

And then I watched each room until you’re watching on the cameras on my phone in gridlock traffic on like where the 405—like where the 10 goes to the 405 that one ramp. I’m just stuck in traffic watching it.

But thank God as I’m watching it, I can’t reach my dad who I’m thinking is dying trying to save his house on the bluffs. And I’m calling 911. I’ve been trying to get these audio calls to just post the level and they say they don’t have them.

But I’m calling 911 to find out if my dad is okay, if he tripped, if—So even though I’m watching my house burn down, I can’t reach my dad. So that’s taking away the material connection. I’m like, my dad cared more to me than my house burning.

So I get on 911. They’re like, “What’s the address?” Like, “Oh, no emergency personnel can go there.” My dad lives on the bluffs. There’s like—

Interviewer: So you’re like losing your mind at that point.

Spencer Pratt: There’s 12 ways to get to my parents’ house. So this idea that there’s no emergency personnel and I’m telling them my dad could be burning up. So these 12 people that did burn alive, I know firsthand if one of their family members or relatives or neighbors was calling 911, they were

told no emergency personnel can go help them. So, thank God my dad obviously lived and he got out and I was like, “Dad, could you get out?” He’s like, “Yeah, it was—I drove, all you could drive anywhere.” So, they didn’t even—

Interviewer: Brutal. So, in the aftermath, this hits you, must have hollowed you, wrecked you. How was the next couple of weeks kind of trying to put everything back together? And at what point were you like, “Man, I’m gonna try and figure this out?”

Like, was it an immediate call to action for you or was there a period of time there where you were trying to put everything together?

Spencer Pratt: So my wife and I when we were very successful in 2009, we spent millions of dollars on her pop music album with all the most famous music producers and writers in the world, but it was a—it—we didn’t have the money to

promote it. It just nobody ever heard it, but we did that. The 15-year anniversary of that album happened to be January 10th. The house burned down January 7th. So when I have zero money now because everything I ever put into

was in this house for my sons. All everything I own was in this house. I’m like, “Oh my god, we have no money. We’re done.” I’m getting emails because January 10th is this anniversary date, 15 years of her album. So I go on TikTok

Live and I say, “Anybody please, you know, I have no money right now. Our house just burned down. Please stream my wife’s album, buy it,” and thank God for Planet Earth getting behind me. I think maybe 12 countries, put it number one.

Everyone streamed it. It was the first time an album from 15 years went to number one on Billboard charts. So, that was taking me out of the dark trauma cuz I’m focusing on right away pivoting into like we’re going to rebuild.

And I was naive to think streaming music you could get a house back, you know? Thank god I did make like $150,000, but if this was 2006, we would have made millions of dollars. So, it took my mind off it.

Obviously, my wife is trying to get our kids into new schools. She’s not even connecting to this—”This is so positive, honey. Everyone’s supporting you.” So, when that wears down and I realize, oh my god, this is not enough money to build anything.

We were stuck with California Fair Plan because we were dropped by Farmers after paying for eight years and we have no money to rebuild. And I start questioning like, “Why did our house burn down? It shouldn’t have burned down.”

And I call up my friend who I just was at a groomsman in his wedding and his dad had just fought Edison in the in the campfire maybe. I’m pretty sure it was campfire at Paradise and he beat Edison. So I

call him and I was like, “Can you represent me? I want to sue the city. I want to sue the state. I want to sue LA.”

Interviewer: So you’re a fighter. You go after it.

Spencer Pratt: I’m just done. Case case. Fast forward a little bit. 5,000 homes burnt. 7,000. 7,000 structures. Yeah. 7,000 homes. Whatever it is. Why are you the guy that comes out of the fire and says, “I’m going to fight and I’m going to do something about it and I’m going to change it”?

Well, thankfully I had this experience of already being like a hated media personality. When you put yourself out there, especially when you’re fighting machines like Gavin Newsom and his social team and they’re calling you a conspiracy theorist and the LA Times is calling you a conspiracy theorist because they’re saying this is climate change.

There’s nothing that could happen. Well, guess what? The day of the debate, the judges overruled the appeal by the state and the city of LA. Guess why? Because of the negligence that caused the Palisades fire. It’s moving forward. Discovery’s open.

So this idea that I was this conspiracy theory climate change wind guy that a normal person would have—oh my god, I’m being attacked by the governor of California on social media. Most people back down. You burn my house down. You burn my parents out.

Interviewer: You’ve been through it. You’ve been in the public. You’ve been a fighter in public. You’ve got this character that allows you to kind of stand up. You have this capacity and you have a bit of a platform going into it.

Spencer Pratt: Yeah. And once I got the truth, all the LAFD whistleblowers were coming to me telling me that they were told to leave the smoldering Lachman fire on January 1st. They told me that Mayor Bass was fighting the battalion chief who’s editing the—they’re editing the after-action report.

Obstruction of justice. They’re telling me that the chief fought her for that 17 million and warned her that Angelenos would not be safe. So I’m getting all this information so I don’t feel like just this fringe social media voice. Man, I’m not crazy.

So, you fast forward, the campaign’s up and running now. You have—well, let’s rewind. So, when I see that no one’s running against her, I reach out to Rick Caruso. I call him. I say, “Are you going to run after Mayor Bass cuz she’s going to guaranteed win June 2nd, 51%?” Totally.

And I cannot accept this as a human being at this point. And I call him and he says, “Go after Bass.” Implying he’s not going after Bass. And so, game on.

Interviewer: No one else stepping up. He told you to do it.

Spencer Pratt: Yes. But I was already doing it. But if he was going to do it, obviously I wasn’t going to go against.

Interviewer: Totally. How’s the campaign going after this debate this week? And I want to talk about the campaign ads because the ads have almost elevated you to what I am hearing from a lot of people is almost like a historic campaign.

The ads are cutting through in a way that people have never seen before. Are those your ads or are they being produced by a third party and put out there? Because I’ve heard from some folks, there’s a guy Charlie Curran that might be involved or other folks that might be separate from your campaign that are putting these out there.

They’re breaking through the mold that everyone’s like, “This isn’t a political campaign. This is almost emotional. It’s a movement. People want to like get behind you and they don’t even live in LA.”

Spencer Pratt: So, the ad that blew up crazy is when I showed Bass’s house, Nithya Raman’s million-dollar mansion, multi-million dollar, and then my Airstream. That one broke every ad record in history. That is, if it has my name on it, it’s legally mine.

Anything like these incredible grassroots ads, but I don’t put my name on it, it’s legally not mine.

Interviewer: So, there are people out there doing these ads, not in your campaign, correct? That are creating this movement.

Spencer Pratt: Correct. Because people feel the common sense. They feel the emotion.

Interviewer: Totally. It’s connecting.

Spencer Pratt: I keep trying to tell everyone that, you know, they try to put me in a box. I didn’t run to be a political party. I didn’t run to be a politician. I ran because I experienced what city leadership failure at the ultimate level is.

That’s why I stepped up. That’s what cuts through. So the media and everyone wants to jump on and be like, “Oh, Spencer is our guy.” No. I’m the citizen. I’m the angry taxpayer.

You can be a Democrat and love me. You can be a Republican and love me. The only people that don’t love me are communists and socialists and I don’t want them to love me.

Interviewer: You know, there was a saying from John Adams 1776 where he said, “Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue,” implying that citizenship involves sacrificing your personal interest for the greater public good.

And Thomas Jefferson also spoke at length about taking a turn providing civic duty. Everyone has a civic responsibility to support society at large, but if you’re going to go into government, if you’re going to go into politics, you do a tour of duty.

It’s not a career. It was never meant to be a career. And it’s almost like the local, the state, and the national level, there’s an entire industry of people that have built a career in politics.

And then you come along—I would think Donald Trump’s come along. He’s almost like another one of these enigmas that came out that people—it resonated with people that you’re actually standing up and saying, “I’m the guy who’s on the other side of the problem with all of this and this is why this needs to change.” It seems to be creating a movement.

Spencer Pratt: Yeah. I feel like I connect more with Cincinnatus. This guy that was a farmer and—I actually have Cincinnatus written down right now. I was going to mention—I’m like, oh, it’s too esoteric.

Oh no. That’s who I connect to because I’m like this guy went and fought this battle. They wanted to give him all the power and he’s like, “No, I want to go back to my family.” And I keep initially when I ran I would say I want to do my four years and then go back.

I realize I need to do the eight years. Lock this in. Get LA the number one city in the world. Then I can go back to my family. So I’m prepared to do the eight. That’s my tour of duty. And when people say, “Oh, this is your house, this Airstream.”

I go, “No, that’s my forward operating base because this is a battle against good and evil.” They let seven people die in the street every day with our billions of tax dollars and they say they need no new beds.

It’s a drug problem. 90% of these people are drug addicts. We need to get these people mandatory treatment. Then we can get them beds and also they don’t have to have a bed in—on the west side or next to people’s houses or in San Pedro and right next to schools.

They can have beds in facilities that we built out. My friend Matt Hess has an incredible facility in Bentonville he built for veterans. I’ve been talking with him where he has veterans come here. They have all these services. It’s beautiful.

I’m like, how do we build this incredible compound, beautiful possibilities? I guess in Italy, some billionaire did this for addicts. That’s my vision where we have all this.

Interviewer: Take care of people the right way.

Spencer Pratt: Exactly. All the services that you’ll ever need in a beautiful setting, not in a cement brick building that looks like a prison. An addict when they’re getting off drugs, they don’t want to be in a 250-foot little cell, no service.

We put them out in nature. We’re spending $25 billion plus. We have enough money where it’s actually cheaper to build the most incredible facility out in nature that bring these services that provide for these addicts. And you separate people.

Everybody doesn’t go in one building like they do right now. If you’re a veteran, you go over here. Single mothers with their kids, families over here. Somebody who’s just a hardened criminal drug addict, you go over here on this side of the hill.

And we need to build this out. And we have the money. But guess who doesn’t make money if I do that? The NGOs that are stealing all of our tax money to increase harm, giving these people pipes, giving them needles, giving them the Narcan, letting them OD 14 times a night.

Interviewer: Let me just hit on the NGO point. What is the corruption there? Help people understand because a lot of people think this is like a MAGA talking point. I hear this thrown about all the time.

People use MAGA as a term to dismiss when someone says something that is factually jarring to you. I’ve noticed this on—someone comes along and they point out something and it’s like, “Oh, that’s a MAGA talking point,” as a way of just dismissing it instead of actually listening to what the person is saying.

Can you explain what goes on with these NGOs? Like how do NGOs create a system that the more we spend—and in the last 10 years City of Los Angeles I think has increased homeless spending by 10x and the homeless population has doubled and clearly it’s gotten a lot worse.

Why is that relationship there and what’s the role that the NGOs actually play in this? And I promise not to call you a MAGA guy for telling me.

Spencer Pratt: Well, first off, when you said homelessness 2x, homelessness 200x. The count for homelessness—when Mayor Bass in the debate was like, “It’s down 17% from”—like, these are the most cooked numbers.

Even the Rand Corporation says what they’re saying is a 30% increase. But they just drive around and they go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. They’re not going in under these encampments and bridges and bushes and unzipping these tents and going into the sewer. So we don’t even know the count.

But let me tell you my first experience with NGOs after the Palisades fire. $100 million raised. Every single person I talked to messaging me: “No one’s getting this money, no one’s seeing a dollar.”

I go to Washington. I ask senators to investigate this. We open up the case. Now all a sudden FireAid puts out a legal letter to defend themselves. In their own legal letter from the law firm, they say “several” of these NGOs gave directly to fire victims.

The list for the 100 million is 200 plus. Google “several”—it’s under 10. So even in their defense they’re telling you—and again, I don’t believe one of those 10 gave directly. The people that they said did, like “we gave gift cards.”

Who’d you give gift cards to? I don’t—you don’t think one fire victim, they’re messaging me all day long, said “Hey I got a $500 gift card.” So that’s when I learned firsthand that these NGOs will take and right in your face a hundred million and just steal it.

So, back to it being a MAGA thing. The person who really exposed the details to me is this incredible Democrat mom, Samantha from the Integrity Project. She made her own little charity nonprofit cuz she’s now tapped out of her own money in her neighborhood in Westwood.

Her and her husband, they’re both lawyers. And this homeless housing went up on their block. It was senior citizens. They kicked the senior citizens out and it’s Weingart. Their audit is late. Let’s just put it that way.

They’re making hundreds of millions of dollars. This is the best part. So, the building goes on the market for $11 million. 6 days later, the city with our tax money gives Weingart $29 million, $28 million to buy this same building that was $11 million.

There’s nobody to this day, years later, being housed in this. Weingart has developers paying $750 a square foot. When I’ve talked to developers and contractors, this should be $250 a square foot.

So, they make this money with these developer kickbacks. They have all these shell companies that, “Oh, this is our developer has nothing to do.” Ready for one of my favorite parts with that $30 million? Who do you think owns that building in Westwood?

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