In 2017, while Barack Obama's oldest daughter, Malia Obama, was a freshman at Harvard University, she was spotted in attendance as Harvard went up against Ivy League rival Yale in the yearly football game. While Yale dominated the game, the most newsworthy moment was a video that appeared to show Malia smoking a cigarette. While the video made the rounds on social media, many came to Malia's defense, including some other president's daughters. "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 tweeted. Chelsea Clinton also wrote on Twitter that Malia's "private life, as a young woman, a college student, a private citizen, should not be your clickbait. Be better."
As reported by the New York Post, a year earlier, Malia was allegedly photographed smoking cannabis while attending the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago, Illinois, where the drug is decriminalized. Not that her dad would necessarily disapprove, as Barack admitted he smoked marijuana as a young man while growing up in Hawaii. He and his friends called themselves the Choom Gang, a reference to their use of marijuana. Later in 2016, Malia seemed to reference the stir she made by wearing a homemade shirt that read "Smoking Kills" when she attended the Budweiser Made in America Festival.
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