With friends like Donald Trump, Spencer Pratt might be wondering if he needs enemies or rivals for the job of Los Angeles Mayor.

“I like to see him do well,” the former Apprentice host said Wednesday about The Hills alum and the latter’s incendiary bid for City Hall against incumbent Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman. “He’s a character,” Trump added on the tarmac next to Air Force One, on his way to Connecticut to give the commencement address at the United States Coast Guard Academy.

“I assume he probably supports me,” POTUS continued on Pratt, who certainly is stealing a number of moves and dodges out of the Trump playbook at the very least. “I heard he’s a big MAGA person. He’s doing well.”

Besides the fact that even a weak endorsement like that is likely a poisoned chalice for ex-Pacific Palisades resident and self-declared “villain” Pratt in deeply Democratic L.A., Trump’s take today on the state of political affairs in the city and state appears out of sync with reality. Bragging that he does “great with Hispanics” and that elections on the West Coast are so “rigged” and “dishonest,” Trump asserted that if “Jesus Christ c(had) on down and count the votes, I would have won California” against Golden State-born Kamala Harris in 2024.

As rumors of a Trump endorsement for Pratt got louder and louder the past week, the  The Guy You Love to Hate author has been gently distancing himself from the MAGA stink and claiming political independence. However, Pratt, who has signed up for a reality series following his campaign and possible win, also has attracted a lot of MAGA support from the likes of James Woods, ex-Kennedy Center chief and apparatchik Richard Grenell and Brian Glazer – which doesn’t exactly help his claims.

Pratt and incumbent Bass have also had to weather accusations that they are in cahoots to some extent as the race heads to the June 2 primary. Similar to now Senator Adam Schiff’s landslide 2024 win against Republican Steve Garvey, the theory goes that Mayor wants to prop up the AI-fueled Pratt in the primary to guarantee she runs against him in the November election and coasts to re-election.

Poll leader Bass will likely face questions on that presumed tactic tonight when she appears with Raman,  businessman Adam Miller and community activist Rae Huang at a mayoral forum at L.A. Valley College. Pratt was also invited, but his presence has not been confirmed yet.