--- 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 6771 og:image:height: 3809 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Off Limits.' 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Ivanka Trump and Chelsea Clinton are condemning coverage that focuses on Malia Obama‘s private life_ 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 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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