Ivanka Trump: Malia Obama should be 'OFF limits' to the media

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U.S. President Barack Obama and his daughter Malia walk in the rain from Marine One to board Air Force One upon their departure from Los Angeles, California April 8, 2016.

• Ivanka Trump condemned recent media coverage of Malia Obama's social life at Harvard University, where the former first daughter is a freshman.
• Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton also called out the coverage as unethical "clickbait."

Ivanka Trump, the president's eldest daughter and top White House adviser, condemned recent media coverage of former President Barack Obama's eldest daughter Malia Obama, who is a 19-year-old freshman at Harvard University.

"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 on Friday.

Shortly after, another former first daughter, Chelsea Clinton, tweeted a similar sentiment.

"Malia Obama's private life, as a young woman, a college student, a private citizen, should not be your clickbait. Be better," Clinton wrote.

The comments came after videos of Obama smoking and kissing another Harvard student at a college football game went viral.

Trump and Clinton are both intimately acquainted with invasive tabloid coverage, both as residents of the White House and as the children of fathers whose high-profile personal lives were the the subject of endless media scrutiny.

Clinton has also spoken out against media criticism of a Trump child.

In August, responding to critiques of 11-year-old Barron Trump's fashion choices, Clinton tweeted, "It's high time the media & everyone leave Barron Trump alone & let him have the private childhood he deserves."

First lady Melania Trump thanked Clinton for her defense of her son and called the media coverage a form of cyber bullying.