Jimmy Kimmel Skewers Spencer Pratt’s Los Angeles Mayoral Run
Jimmy Kimmel weighed in on reality show star Spencer Pratt‘s unexpected rise in the polls as he wages a run for Los Angeles mayor, warning that the candidate was in it for the attention.
Kimmel said, “Are we really going to risk repeating that mistake we made with Trump in L.A., of all places? Mayor should not be your first job. The mayor of L.A. is in charge of a $14 billion annual budget. Spencer Pratt is not the person who should be in charge of that.”
Kimmel compared Pratt to Trump’s candidacy, but said that the difference is that Trump”actually had a job before he was on a reality show.”
“He wasn’t good at the job. He got all the money from his dad. The only thing he was good at was promoting himself. And it turned out that was enough.”
The ABC late night host acknowledged Angelenos’ dismay with current city leadership, telling his audience, “If you don’t want to vote for Karen Bass on June 2, I get it, but you better find somebody else to vote for, and preferably somebody who isn’t wasting our time and money to get himself back on television.”
Kimmel acknowledged that residents, including liberals, are “frustrated because nothing seems to change. So then you get a guy who is on a reality show, who’s on a lot of reality shows, his profession is to be the screaming jerk on reality shows, and his house burns down. And even though he had no private insurance on his house, and doesn’t believe in climate change, he is understandably upset about his house burning down, and since he’s a moderately famous person, he gets attention, he’s on the news, he’s on social media, and for the first time in his life, people are agreeing with what he has to say. It’s hard not to agree with what he has to say. He’s angry about the same problems a lot of people here are angry about. Does he have solutions to those problems? No, but at least he’s acknowledging that they are problems.”
But Kimmel said that Pratt was “another narcissist looking for attention.”
Pratt responded to Kimmel’s monologue by writing on X, “Jimmy’s secretly voting for me.”
