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Jane Goodall's biting 'Last Words' wish before dying would send Musk, Trump and Netanyahu on a SpaceX flight out of here
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jane-goodall-famous-last-words-trump-musk-netanyahu-b2840551.htmlRachel Dobkin
Tuesday 07 October 2025
Before her death, chimpanzee expert and conservationist Jane Goodall revealed her wish to send tech billionaire Elon Musk, President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a SpaceX flight out of Earth.
Goodall died at the age of 91 last Wednesday. As the world mourned her death, Netflix debuted a new documentary series titled Famous Last Words, featuring an interview with Goodall from March, which she understood would only be released after her death.
One rather frank part of Goodall’s interview that made headlines involved her listing several world leaders she’d like off the planet.
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“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,” Goodall said.
Goodall died at the age of 91 last Wednesday. As the world mourned her death, Netflix debuted a new documentary series titled Famous Last Words, featuring an interview with Goodall from March, which she understood would only be released after her death.
One rather frank part of Goodall’s interview that made headlines involved her listing several world leaders she’d like off the planet.
snip
“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,” Goodall said.
Earlier:
Goodall told The Atlantic in 2016:
(https://web.archive.org/web/20160923021659/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/10/who-will-win/497561/)
In many ways the performances of Donald Trump remind me of male chimpanzees and their dominance rituals,” Jane Goodall, the anthropologist, told me shortly before Trump won the GOP nomination. “In order to impress rivals, males seeking to rise in the dominance hierarchy perform spectacular displays: stamping, slapping the ground, dragging branches, throwing rocks. 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.”
In her book My Life With the Chimpanzees, Goodall told the story of “Mike,” a chimp who maintained his dominance by kicking a series of kerosene cans ahead of him as he moved down a road, creating confusion and noise that made his rivals flee and cower.
To round things out, when I asked (former Maryland Governor) Martin O’Malley how he would be preparing to debate Trump if he’d won the nomination, he said, “I’d start by thinking of him as a monkey with a machine gun.”
In her book My Life With the Chimpanzees, Goodall told the story of “Mike,” a chimp who maintained his dominance by kicking a series of kerosene cans ahead of him as he moved down a road, creating confusion and noise that made his rivals flee and cower.
To round things out, when I asked (former Maryland Governor) Martin O’Malley how he would be preparing to debate Trump if he’d won the nomination, he said, “I’d start by thinking of him as a monkey with a machine gun.”
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