What did Jane Goodall say about Donald Trump and Elon Musk? Late primatologist’s remarks from newly released interview explored

Jane Goodall, in an interview featured on Netflix's Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall, which was released shortly after her death, candidly shared her thoughts about certain public figures she disliked, including US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Elon Musk.

"There are people I don't like. 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 disover."

When host Brad Falchuk asked,

"Would he be - would he be one of them?"

To which Jane responded, saying,

"Oh, absolutely, he'd be the list. And you can imagine who I'd put on that spaceship"

While revealing all the people she didn't like, Jane Goodall said,

"Along iwth 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. I'd certainly put (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu in there."

Jane Goodall passed away on October 1 at 91 due to natural causes in California, as per a social media statement by her institute.

More about Jane Goodall's comments on Donald Trump

Jane Goodall's plans for Donald Trump and his supporters in a recently released posthumous interview are not the first time she has expressed criticism of President Trump. Goodall, who is renowned for her chimpanzee field research, while speaking to MSNBC's Ari Melber in 2022, said that Trump displays,

"the same sort of behavior as a male chimpanzee will show when he's competing for dominance with another. They're upright, they swagger, they project themsleves as really more large and aggressive than they may actually be in order to intimidate their rivals."

Goodall had made similar comments in 2016 during Trump's first presidential campaign and said,

"In many ways the performance of Donald Trump remind me of male chimpanzees and their dominance rituals."

While explaining the resemblance, Goodall said that male chimpanzees, to "impress rivals," perform spectacular displays to establish dominance by "stamping, slapping the ground, dragging branches, throwing rocks." Goodall also said,

"The more vigorous and imaginative the display, the faster the individual is likely to rise in the hierarchy, and the longer he is likely to maintain that position."

Goodall, during the MSNBC interview, mentioned that while she's not American, looking at American politics from the outside, "the divisiveness that's being created in your America is a tragedy."

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