Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office this week, shortly after announcing he’s joining a lawsuit targeting the city’s Democrat leadership over the devastating 2025 Pacific Palisades wildfire.
The lawsuit highlights gross municipal negligence in the response to the January 2025 disaster that destroyed thousands of homes across the region — including Pratt’s own residence.
Pratt is teaming up with an unexpected ally: Kenneth Bass, the brother of current Los Angeles Democrat Mayor Karen Bass. Both men lost their homes in the same fire.
They’ve joined a collective lawsuit alongside other property owners targeting the city of Los Angeles and the Department of Water and Power. The lawsuit argues that the city and the utility provider failed to manage infrastructure and emergency protocols properly, which directly led to the catastrophic fire, according to the LA Times.
“You must love your country the way you love your child. Unconditional love,” Pratt wrote on X after the Oval Office visit.
Pratt announced the legal action on social media, stating he joined the lawsuit to address the “reckless negligence that led to the destruction of our homes.”
Following the White House meeting, Pratt shared a photograph of his son inside the Oval Office alongside the president. He tied his activism directly to fatherhood, explaining that his drive to fix his community is fueled by the same protective love he feels for his son.
You must love your country the way you love your child. Unconditional love. You make sure they play by the rules. But no matter what, you love them with your whole heart, you wake up every day thinking about how to be of service to them, and you would die to protect them. pic.twitter.com/wiU3xECRwR
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) July 8, 2026
“I will never stop fighting for my community,” Pratt added in a separate post.
I will never stop fighting for my community. pic.twitter.com/mpDrl4HuMg
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) July 7, 2026
The Oval Office encounter follows months of public back-and-forth between Trump and the conservative former candidate.
During Pratt’s primary campaign, Trump praised his political rise while speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews.
“Oh, I’d like to see him do well. He’s a character,” the president remarked. “I don’t know him. I assume he probably supports me. Does he support me? I heard he does. I heard he’s a big MAGA person. He’s doing well.”
Though the Associated Press reported that Pratt finished third in his primary race against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and far-left challenger Nithya Raman, failing to secure a spot in the November runoff, Trump actively disputed the official results.
In a series of public statements and media appearances, the president labeled the California voting system dishonest and argued that the results shifted improperly during the extended mail-in ballot counting process.
Trump: “They’re cheating. The kid won. Or he was certainly in the top two. I don’t know him, I never met him. Spencer Pratt. He went away quietly. We didn’t go away quietly. He shouldn’t go away quietly, he should protest, because it was in my very strong opinion a rigged… pic.twitter.com/lf0jyHlLXG
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 26, 2026
“No way this could have happened. Rigged Election!” Trump asserted at the time. “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.”
The specific details of the conversation between President Trump and Pratt inside the Oval Office have not been publicly disclosed. White House officials did not release an official readout of the meeting, and Pratt did not share a breakdown of their dialogue.
