Trump is the sort of old school racist whose entire model of the world couldn't tolerate Obama as POTUS.

...and then of course, this didn't help:

https://youtu.be/HHckZCxdRkA?si=axixDO1Cm1i3Su0k

Looks like they found the one cop on the force who doesn't obscure the license plate of their private vehicle.

As Gibson himself said, the Matrix owed a lot more to Phillip K. Dick than to his sprawl trilogy.

...and as indicated by the presence of the comic on set while shooting the Matrix, and as said by Grant Morisson, the Matrix was largely derrivative of The Invisibles.