During a tailgate party before a Harvard-Yale football game in November 2017, Malia Obama was photographed smoking and kissing a guy (who turned out to be her longtime boyfriend Rory Farquharson). Unshockingly, she received an avalanche of criticism, even though her father wasn’t the president anymore. But many others also came out in her defense and among them was none other than then-president Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump.
A few days after the controversy, Ivanka took to X, previously known as Twitter, to remind everyone that Malia was a 19-year-old college student. “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,” she wrote. Ivanka’s defense of the former first daughter, despite their fathers’ conflicting ideologies, showed how strongly she felt about the issue. Just a few months earlier, Ivanka had made a similar case about her brother, Barron Trump.
Shortly after moving into the White House in June 2017, Donald’s youngest son was mocked and judged for wearing casual T-shirts and shorts — even by conservatives. In August 2017, the Daily Caller ran an article titled: “It’s High Time Barron Trump Starts Dressing Like He’s In the White House.” Ivanka couldn’t stay quiet. “He’s a young boy trying his best to acclimate in a surreal environment,” she said in a September 2017 interview on “Dr. Oz,” adding that “Barron should be off limits,” (via MamaMia).
