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Chimpanzee expert and conservationist Jane Goodall said in an interview that the world would be a better place without Trump, Netanyahu and Musk. She listed two more world leaders whom she would like to ship off Earth to another planet.
A Netflix documentary shows chimpanzee expert and conservationist Jane Goodall, who recently passed away, talking about which men she would love to send out of Earth and onto another planet, which "he’s sure he’s going to discover." In the documentary series titled Famous Last Words, Goodall revealed the names of these politicians in an interview in March. Goodall says she would love to put billionaire Elon Musk, US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on "one of [Elon] Musk’s spaceships", and ship them off to another planet. At the time, Goodall understood that the interview would only be released after her death. She even named Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“There are people I don’t like. And I would like to put them on one of Musk’s spaceships and send them all off to the planet he’s sure he’s going to discover," Goodall told TV writer Brad Falchuk. She then lists the "world leaders" she wants off the planet. “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.
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Musk has made Starship, the biggest rocket ever, which he claims can take humans and cargo to Mars. He has envisioned building a society on the Red Planet and plans on doing so within the next decade. Goodall's list stems from the world conflicts that are currently brewing. She was a United Nations Messenger of Peace and spoke on the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Hamas war on the International Day of Peace in September 2024. “Let us pray for the end of conflict, especially the genocide of the people of Gaza," Goodall said. She prayed for the safety of "those risking their lives to help the wounded and feed the hungry and care for the animals suffering as a result of human violence, cruelty and war."
Goodall has, in the past, even compared Trump to chimpanzees she cared for all these years. "In many ways, the performances of Donald Trump remind me of male chimpanzees and their dominance rituals,” Goodall told The Atlantic in 2016. Meanwhile, Musk and Trump shared a close relationship in the build-up to the 2024 elections. After the latter became president, he made Musk the leader of a new group called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) aimed at reducing federal costs.