Iconic primatologist Jane Goodall talked about blasting President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and authoritarian leaders into space during an interview for Netflix, which was released following her death last week at the age of 91.
“Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall” was recorded in March on the condition that it would only be aired after the scientist had died.
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“There are people I don’t like,” Goodall admitted to host Brad Falchuk. “And I would like to put them on one of [Elon] Musk’s spaceships and send them all off to the planet he’s sure he’s going to discover.”
Falchuk asked, “Would he be one of them?”
Goodall replied: “Oh, absolutely, he’d be the host. And you can imagine who I’d put on that spaceship.”
“Who?” Falchuk wanted to know.
“Along with Musk, would be Trump, and some of Trump’s real supporters. And then I would put [Russian President Vladimir] Putin in there, and I would put President Xi [Jinping of China]. I’d certainly put [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu in there and his far-right government.”
“Put them all on that spaceship and send them off,” she added.
Falchuk suggested that “these men seem like not the alpha chimp, they think they are, but it seems like their behavior is not…”
Goodall explained how there are “two types of alpha,” one which “doesn’t last” long because they are solely about aggression, whereas the ones that use their brains “last much longer.”
During Trump’s first presidential campaign in 2016, Goodall likened Trump’s antics to “male chimpanzees and their dominance rituals.” In 2022, she told MSNBC’s Ari Melber she saw in Trump “the same sort of behavior as a male chimpanzee will show when he is competing for dominance with another.”
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