Conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall saved Chimps all her life, but her last wish was to send Trump and his buddies off the planet

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After a lifetime spent rescuing chimpanzees from cages, cruelty, and climate collapse, Dr. Jane Goodall has one final rescue mission in mind. Only this time, it’s for the planet and its people. Revered as the world’s foremost primatologist and a lifelong advocate of environmental justice, Goodall shot for Netflix‘s new docuseries Famous Last Words before her death, where she sits down with Brad Falchuk to reflect on her legacy. But amid reflections on kindness, activism, and hope, she delivered a zinger that will go down as one of the most memorable parting shots in modern environmental history. The 90-year-old scientist conservationist, who devoted more than six decades to protecting Earth’s fragile ecosystems, revealed on the show that her dying wish would be to launch Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and a handful of other world leaders straight off the planet they’ve done so much to endanger. When Falchuk asked whether there were any people she disliked during her long career, Goodall didn’t hesitate. “Absolutely,” she said, before adding, with characteristic calm and devastating precision: “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.” Falchuk, half-joking, asked if Musk himself would be on board, and Goodall didn’t miss a beat, saying, “Oh absolutely — he’d be the host.” She also nudged him, saying, “And you can imagine who I’d put on that spaceship.” Yes, we all can, and we all agree. But Falchuk wanted to hear it directly from her, and in a moment that’s equal parts savage and saintly, she began naming her passengers: “Along with Musk would be Trump and some of Trump’s real supporters. And then I would put Putin in there. I would put President Xi, and I would certainly put Netanyahu in there, and his far-right government.” With that, Goodall sent her last wish out into the universe: “Put them all on that spaceship and send them off.” The legendary conservationist died in her sleep of natural causes on Oct. 1, 2025, at the age of 91 in Los Angeles, California. If there’s poetic justice in the universe, perhaps one day her wish will come true, and the rest of us might finally get a chance to breathe a little easier on the planet she fought so hard to protect.