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Reality Star Dragged Into Trump’s Green Slime Pool Drama

The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast

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June 23, 2026

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Reality Star Dragged Into Trump’s Green Slime Pool Drama

jfizzy/Star Max/GC ImagesReality star Kelly Dodd is paddling away from the growing controversy swirling over President Donald Trump’s botched Reflecting Pool renovations. The Real Housewives of Orange County alum was dragged into Trump’s vanity project debacle when The New York Times revealed that the company the president tasked with installing a water-purification system to prevent algae bloom at the Reflecting Pool is owned by John J. Cafaro, a long-time Trump supporter and two-time felon. One of the photos of Cafaro, 74, that quickly made the rounds showed the Trump donor posing alongside Dodd, 50, with a cigar clenched between his teeth at Trump National Golf Club in Florida. Dodd had posted the photo on Instagram in December 2025. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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