Transphobia is alive and well in America — and so is Vivian Wilson, the 20-year-old trans daughter of Elon Musk who clapped back at her billionaire father after he deadnamed her and declared she had been “killed.”

Elon Musk attends President Donald Trump event; Vivian Wilson via Instagram reel

Musk — the CEO of Tesla, founder of SpaceX, and recent owner of X/Twitter — has expanded his horizons by joining President Donald Trump’s 2025 administration as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

On Saturday, March 22, X user @spacesudoer wrote, “Don’t people realize that we hate Hitler not for doing a quirky salute, but for killing millions of people? Has Elon killed even a single person? No. And just because his son says something, that doesn’t necessarily make it true.”

Musk wrote the following in response:

“Exactly. My son, Xavier, died. He was killed by the woke mind virus. Now, the woke mind virus will die.”

— (@)

On Sunday, March 23, Vivian Wilson shared an Instagram video to clap back at her father deadnaming her and falsely claiming that she has died.

The video begins with a screenshot of Musk’s X post seen above, and then shows a video of Vivian Wilson — very much alive — clapping back at her father’s false claims.

“I look pretty good for a dead bitch,” she lip syncs, using the audio-tag of Morgan McMichaels entering the werk room for RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3.

Vivian’s video can be watched below.

What quote is Vivian Wilson referencing in the Instagram video?

If you’re not familiar with the reference, Morgan McMichaels is a drag queen who first competed on RuPaul’s Drag Race season 2 and subsequently came back for All Stars 3.

Between Morgan’s first and second run on Drag Race, the polarizing winner of Drag Race season 2 shared social media posts falsely alleging that Morgan had died — going as far as creating “artwork” about Morgan’s death, pretending to be mourning, and including a link to promote their SoundCloud page.

These false accusations prompted Morgan to do a live-stream to clarify that she was very much alive and blast the season 2 winner for making things up.

During that chaotic live-stream from 2017, Morgan explained that many of her loved ones actually believed the false information about her death — referencing people who were literally crying and freaking out over the idea that Morgan had actually passed away.

On May 29, 2017 — literally one day after the death hoax started by the crowned winner of season 2 — Morgan delivered one of the most iconic and unforgettable live drag performances of all time: a number (dubbed “ALIVE”) in which Morgan attended her own funeral.

Instead of using a fake dead body and/or a coffin for the performance, Morgan turned the season 2 winner’s social media post into the object of her mourning and sadness — all while lip syncing to a legendary medley of “Bring Me to Life” by Evanescence, “I’m Alive” by Céline Dion, and “Survivor” by Destiny’s Child.

So, when Morgan returned for All Stars 3, she made one last reference to the death hoax saga by entering the werk room and delivering the line, “I look pretty good for a dead bitch.”

Vivian Wilson, who recently appeared on the cover of Teen Vogue, hasn’t shied away from discussing her love of Drag Race and how she developed — as she calls it — a “sharp tongue.”

“When you spend all of [the lockdown years] in online communities of queer people who are constantly getting into drama and trying to read each other, [you] learn how to make a response very quickly,” Vivian told Teen Vogue. “And you learn how to be funny and snap at someone else in a comedic way… Getting into fights with other queer teenagers — that’s how you learn how to be quick and witty.”