Former mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt lit up social media over the Independence Day weekend after posting a blistering response to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s July 4 address, accusing the socialist mayor of using America’s birthday to attack the nation’s history rather than celebrate it.
Pratt’s video quickly spread online after Mamdani delivered an immigration-focused speech from behind the historic desk once used by President George Washington at City Hall.
Flanked by recently naturalized U.S. citizens, Mamdani used the nation’s 250th Independence Day to criticize wealth inequality, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and what he called an American system dominated by “oligarchs.”
“We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans,” Mamdani said, while also taking aim at billionaire Elon Musk and the nation’s economic system.
Pratt wasn’t having it.
“Notice how the communists always attack your history,” Pratt declared in a viral video filmed beside the burned remains of his Pacific Palisades home, wearing a shirt reading, “the anti-socialists social club.”
“We all had to sit and watch that vile, commie mayor sit on the wrong side of our founding father’s desk to try to lecture us about our own history.”
Pratt argued that history gives Americans their identity and accused communist movements throughout history of attempting to erase a nation’s past in order to reshape society.
“The communists must attack your history,” he said. “Why? Because history is what anchors you. It’s what makes us attached to something.”
Calling communism “an evil, anti-human religion,” Pratt argued that its goal is “to destroy what makes us human.”
He urged Americans not to apologize for celebrating Independence Day.
“It’s OK to love America. Not only is it OK to love America, it’s necessary to love America,” Pratt said. “We are the only bulwark against tyranny on this earth.”
Standing amid the ruins left behind by the devastating Los Angeles wildfires that destroyed his family’s home earlier this year, Pratt compared love of country to love of home.
“Think of your country like a home,” he said. “What makes your home special?… It’s the memories you have there.”
“Erasing history is how you demoralize people, how you unmoor them and detach them from their society so you can take it from them and rewrite it in your image.”
Pratt acknowledged America’s past has not been perfect.
“Our history is messy. Our history is violent,” he said. “Bad times are part of what makes us stronger, a part of what makes us who we are.”
He closed by turning back to Mamdani.
“He has no place to rewrite our history and lecture us about what our country stands for.”
“As a country, we are batting 1,000. Not only is it a miracle that this radical experiment in self-governance even survived past 1776, but we are the champions of the world. Be proud of that. Be proud of your history.”
Watch the clip:
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— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) July 4, 2026
