He used to be famous for reality TV. Now he’s famous for something else.
Over the Fourth of July weekend, Spencer Pratt posted a video that spread fast online. He was sitting beside an RV, on the lot where his Los Angeles home used to stand before the Palisades fire took it. He wore a T-shirt that said “the anti-socialists social club.” Behind him: ash and memory.
He was responding to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who marked the country’s 250th birthday with a speech from George Washington’s old desk. Flanked by eight newly naturalized citizens, Mamdani used the occasion to attack ICE, Elon Musk, and what he called America’s “arena of supremacy.” He talked about oligarchs and calloused hands and soft hands. He talked about contradictions.
Pratt didn’t see contradictions. He saw an insult.
“Notice how the communists always attack your history,” he said.
He didn’t stop there. He said Mamdani had no business “sitting on the wrong side of our founding father’s desk” to lecture the country that took him in. He said communism is “an evil, anti-human religion” — one built to strip people of what makes them people.
Then he made his real point, and it’s a good one: history is what anchors you. Erase it, he said, and people become unmoored. Detached. Easy to take advantage of. “The communist destroys your history so he can take your home and rebuild it in his image.”
He knows something about losing a home.
Pratt didn’t pretend America’s story is clean. “Our history is messy, our history is violent,” he said. But the hard parts, he argued, are part of what forged us — not proof we should be ashamed.
His bottom line: love of country isn’t naive. It isn’t optional either. “We are the only bulwark against tyranny on this earth.”
Mamdani, for his part, said every American gets to decide what America means — and accused the powerful of deciding, for centuries, that it means exclusion.
Pratt heard something else: a man standing at Washington’s desk, running down the house that gave him his citizenship.
Two Americans. Two very different Fourth of Julys.
Watch the clip below:
God Bless America pic.twitter.com/RNwbNIGhCs
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) July 4, 2026
