You wouldn’t expect Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump to find common ground that often. But in 2017, the former presidential kids both spoke out in defense of someone else who knows all about life in the White House, Malia Obama, after she was filmed smoking a cigarette at a tailgate for the yearly Harvard-Yale football game.
Footage of the oh-so-shocking incident was first posted on Instagram before The Daily Caller, a conservative news site, took great glee in publicizing it further. However, despite trying to whip up a controversy, most believed that the eldest daughter of Barack and Michelle Obama wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary.
And that included both Trump and Clinton, with the former tweeting, “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.” The latter also took to X formerly known as Twitter to post, “Malia Obama’s private life, as a young woman, a college student, a private citizen, should not be your clickbait. Be better.”
