Trump Is Like an Aggressive Chimp and May Not Last Long as President, Says Jane Goodall

Newsweek ^ | September 20, 2017 | Tufayel Ahmed

[2ndDivisionVet]

Primatologist Jane Goodall has made her name studying chimpanzees for over half a century. So, if anyone can deduce a distinct correlation between a brash chimp and the egoistic hubris of, say, the president of the United States, it’s Goodall.

Pre-election, last October, Goodall made a comparison between then-Republican candidate Donald Trump and the primates she has devoted her life to understanding.

“In many ways the performances of Donald Trump remind me of male chimpanzees and their dominance rituals,” she told the Atlantic.

“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.”

Trump’s election campaign was littered with plenty of metaphorical stamping and rock-throwing.....

[dowcaet]

The left keeps digging that 2020 hole a little deeper. As for Goodall. Ah, whatever. She’s just another dumb lefty posing as a “learned” primatologist/scientist!

[jonrick46]

The Commie useful idiots are piling on. Many, like Jane Goodall, are doing it to gain relevance after their glory in the sun has faded and economic problems have risen.

[jetson]

Was she talking about BOzo?

[EEGator]

Dian Fossey got chopped with a machete while trying to study gorillas.

All cultures are equal...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I thought she was dead?

[redcatcherb412]

I must have missed the esteemed Ms Goodall’s public views of ol jug ears like a bald chimp over the 8 years he occupied the DC zoo. Seems she only makes comparisons for conservative admins.

[EEGator]

Roger has no balls, so he is kind of a woman.

[RegulatorCountry]

In many ways, Ms. Goodall’s performance reminds me of female chimpanzees presenting their red, swollen nether regions in heat but getting no attention and thus becoming a reproductive failure because the alpha won’t touch her.

[clearcarbon]

"Trump Is Like an Aggressive Chimp and May Not Last Long as President, Says Jane Goodall"

She is intimately familiar with chimp behavior. Humans? Not so much.

[moovova]

“I thought gorillas ate her.”

Me too.

Or, was that Sigourney Weaver?

[rlmorel]

I thought she was dead...but I guess she is still alive. She does look like a little old lady who flipped me the bird for having this on my car:

[rlmorel]

hahahahahaha!

[RightGeek]

[P-Marlowe]

Isn’t calling someone a chimpanzee racist?

[Mark17]

President Trump sure does get the old hags riled up.

I wonder if he could get Helen Thomas riled up? Ewwww. What an awful thought. 😆😄 Best to leave that individual where she is. 😊

[RetiredTexasVet]

Beat me to it ...

[wideminded]

"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.”

So Trump will be around for a while, and will probably be reelected. Got it.

I always thought Jane Goodall was a spinster who had devoted her life to science. But apparently she has been married twice and has a kid.

She actually has aged better than a lot of 83 year-olds and I don't think it is accurate to say she is or was physically ugly

[Lionheartusa1]

Hell ,,,, they said he would win the office .

[bagster]

Maybe he is the alpha chimp. Wonder if she considered that?

Jane needs to get busy biting tics off Trump's back fur like a good beta female before he gets pissed off and throws her off a really tall tree.

[Hildy]

There is nothing off limits anymore on the left. And the children are watching. I thought Jane Goodall was dead.