Malia Obama kicked a (presumably) American citizen at Lollapalooza, and not only did the Secret Service fail to act, the kicked victim was happy about it. 
 
 Bridget Truskey was minding her own business at the music festival, when the president’s daughter kicked her. “It was awesome,” Truskey tweeted, apparently dangerously unable to see past the stars in her eyes: 
 
 I got (accidentally) kicked by Malia Obama today at Lollapalooza. No lie. Malia. Obama. It was awesome. #lollapalooza — Bridget Truskey (@b_truskey) August 4, 2014 
 
 Where was the Secret Service? 
 
 (h/t BuzzFeed) 
 
 Follow Rachel on Twitter ||||| In what must have been a security nightmare for the Secret Service, Malia Obama attended the Lollapalooza music festival this weekend in Chicago. 
 
 According to the Chicago Sun-Times: 
 
 The Obama's tall 15-year-old was with three friends and was happily chatting away as she left the muddy venue. Despite blending quietly into an oblivious crowd, she was flanked by two huge guards, apparently Secret Service agents in plains clothes, who made sure she and her friends – two girls and a boy – had plenty of space to make their exit. 
 
 Malia caught Chicago artist Chance the Rapper's headlining performance to close Sunday night at the festival, proving that she has excellent taste. 
 
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 I have to imagine that bringing a Secret Service detail to Lollapalooza is at once both annoying and awesome. Annoying because everything is annoying when you're a teenager, but awesome because anyone who has ever been to a music festival knows how handy they could be. (I bet Malia didn't have to wait in a twenty minute line to use a dirty porta potty.) 
 
 Those who spotted her went straight to Twitter to document their sighting. One concertgoer tweeted that he asked the eldest Obama daughter for a photo, but was told that she wasn't allowed to take pictures with anyone. So unless Sarah here is a friend, she got incredibly lucky. 
 
 This closes out what I assume has been the best summer any 16 year-old has ever had. Malia spent the summer interning on the new Halle Berry series Extant in Los Angeles. 
 
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 When I was 16, I spent the summer at camp studying for the SATs. ||||| A video clip appearing to show Malia Obama blowing smoke rings went viral Friday, inspiring dozens of people to post on social media about how awesome the former first daughter is, bemoan her lack of privacy and compare her to the Trump brood. 
 
 A person resembling Obama, a 19-year-old in her freshman year at Harvard University, was filmed doing the smoke trick. The right-wing site the Daily Caller reported that the recording—captioned "'f------ get your camera right now'"—was posted and deleted by Barstool Sports, but a version of it was still making the rounds on YouTube and Twitter Friday morning. But despite being shared by conservatives who regularly slam Obama's dad, much of the reception to the video was positive. 
 
 Writer Ashley C. Ford joked that she was adding "another thing to the list of ways Malia Obama is more talented than me," while blogger Charles Clymer tweeted that "the only thing I find offensive about about Malia Obama blowing smoke rings is that it confirms she’s so much cooler than I was at 19." "Let Malia live," activist DeRay Mckesson said. 
 
 Others contrasted the video purportedly of Obama with President Donald Trump's children, arguing that at least the teen wasn't a big game hunter like Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. or involved in an investigation into whether she colluded with Russian operatives to influence the 2016 election, as they are. 
 
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 Obama has been spotted smoking before. Last week, she was caught on camera with a cigarette and a boy before the Harvard-Yale football game. In August 2016, a festivalgoer at Lollapalooza in Chicago claimed to have seen Obama smoking marijuana. 
 
 It's not clear what was being smoked in Friday's viral video, but Massachusetts, where Harvard is located, recently legalized recreational marijuana. It's also not clear how Obama's dad, former President Barack Obama, feels about it. 
 
 He's no stranger to drug use. The senior Obama admitted in 2006 to using pot, telling journalists that "when I was a kid, I inhaled ... that was the point." There are at least two famous photos of him holding blunts. Back in 1995, he even wrote in his memoir Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance about smoke rings, saying: 
 
 "I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it." 
 
 Then again, he had a lot more privacy than his daughter currently does.
– Malia Obama went to Lollapalooza this weekend—continuing what Jezebel refers to as "the best summer any 16-year-old has ever had" (because hey, pretty awesome internship)—and, as has never in the history of humankind at music festivals happened, someone got accidentally jostled, and it got tweeted: "I got (accidentally) kicked by Malia Obama today at Lollapalooza. No lie. Malia. Obama. It was awesome. #lollapalooza" Then the Daily Caller got involved with a story headlined "Malia Obama Straight Up Kicked A Girl at Lollapalooza": "Malia Obama kicked a (presumably) American citizen at Lollapalooza, and not only did the Secret Service fail to act, the kicked victim was happy about it. Bridget Truskey was minding her own business at the music festival, when the president’s daughter kicked her. 'It was awesome,' Truskey tweeted, apparently dangerously unable to see past the stars in her eyes."