--- title: Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton Defend Malia Obama description: Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton rallied around Malia Obama, coming to her defense after a video appeared to show her smoking canonical: https://time.com/5036859/malia-obama-smoking-ivanka-trump-chelsea-clinton/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-25T15:21:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T00:05:17.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton Defend Malia Obama og:description: 'Off limits' og:url: https://time.com/5036859/malia-obama-smoking-ivanka-trump-chelsea-clinton/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a678a269d6cf100/6988e6e18fd2eef444359bfb/gettyimages-544941578.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-OBAMA-INDEPENDENCE-DAY-JULY 4TH og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton Defend Malia Obama twitter:description: 'Off limits' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a678a269d6cf100/6988e6e18fd2eef444359bfb/gettyimages-544941578.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Off Limits.' Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton Defend Malia Obama After Smoking Video by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:05 AM UTCPublished: Nov 25, 2017 3:21 PM UTC  Malia Obama, daughter of US President Barack Obama, makes her way off the stage after her father sang "Happy Birthday" for her during an Independence Day Celebration for military members and administration staff on July 4, 2016 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Malia Obama, daughter of US President Barack Obama, makes her way off the stage after her father sang "Happy Birthday" for her during an Independence Day Celebration for military members and administration staff on July 4, 2016 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC.Photo by Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:05 AM UTCPublished: Nov 25, 2017 3:21 PM UTC [Ivanka Trump](http://time.com/5036273/ivanka-trump-thanksgiving-daca-dream-act/) and [Chelsea Clinton](http://motto.time.com/4860791/chelsea-clinton-hillary-clinton-would-not-sell-me-to-be-president/) rallied around former President Barack Obama’s daughter, coming to her defense after a video appeared to show Malia Obama smoking. The widely circulated video, which identified the 19-year-old by name, was first posted to Instagram and has since been deleted. “Malia Obama should be allowed the same privacy as her school aged peers. She is a young adult and private citizen, and should be OFF limits,” Ivanka Trump said in a tweet. > [](https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/934108754731307009) Chelsea Clinton also tweeted urging people to respect Malia Obama’s privacy. “Malia Obama’s private life, as a young woman, a college student, a private citizen, should not be your clickbait,” Clinton wrote. “Be better.” > [](https://twitter.com/ChelseaClinton/status/934118380835082242) Chelsea Clinton also [came to the defense of Donald Trump’s youngest child,](http://motto.time.com/4643445/chelsea-clinton-defends-barron-trump/) Barron Trump, earlier this year. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5036859/malia-obama-smoking-ivanka-trump-chelsea-clinton/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5036859/malia-obama-smoking-ivanka-trump-chelsea-clinton/"},"headline":"'Off Limits.' 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