The director was infuriated by
Social Media banter in which Musk and Trump tweeted about ‘the red pill’
Film-maker Lilly Wachowski has responded to
Elon Musk and
Ivanka Trump after the pair bantered on social media using a phrase from the Wachowskis’ hit 1999 film, The Matrix.
After Musk tweeted “Take the red pill” – referring to a key scene in The Matrix, which subsequently gave rise to the phrase “redpilling” as an alt-right, misogynist meme, along with a red rose emoji normally associated with the
Democratic Socialists of America, the party to which
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and
Rashida Tlaib belong – Trump replied: “Taken!”