Jane Goodall’s final wish: Blast Trump, Musk and Putin to space

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WASHINGTON - It’s like the opposite of naming your dream dinner party guests.

In a Netflix interview aired posthumously, Dr Jane Goodall,

who died last week at 91

, said she’d gladly send Mr Donald Trump, Mr Elon Musk, Mr Vladimir Putin, Mr Xi Jinping and Mr Benjamin Netanyahu off the planet in a SpaceX rocket.

Clips from the show “Famous Last Words” have since gone viral with tens of millions of views, drawing praise but also some scorn for the legendary primatologist, and even sparking debate over whether the footage was real or AI-generated.

Netflix said she filmed the interview in March with the understanding that it would not be released until after her death.

“Do you have people that you don’t like?” host Brad Falchuk asked Dr Goodall, who began the interview by sipping a glass of whiskey – her pre-talk ritual to keep her voice supple.

“Absolutely, 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,” she replied.

Mr Musk, the world’s richest person, has made it his life’s mission to colonise Mars and make humanity a “multiplanetary species.”

Dr Goodall added that Mr Musk would “be the host, and you can imagine who I’d put on that spaceship.”

“Along with Musk would be Trump, and some of Trump’s real supporters, and then I would put Putin in there, and I would put President Xi – I’d certainly put Netanyahu in there, and his far-right government. Put them all on that spaceship and send them off.”

The conversation then turned to aggression in chimpanzees and whether the men she’...

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