Jane Goodall says Donald Trump reminds her of 'male chimpanzees and their dominance rituals'

Jane Goodall with a chimpanzee
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Here's something Republican Donald Trump can add to his list of personal superlatives: He's the most dominant presidential candidate ever! Well, he would be if he were a chimpanzee running for president of the jungle.

In comments shared in an article from the October issue of The Atlantic, famed chimpanzee expert and anthropologist Jane Goodall said she sees something familiar in the GOP nominee. "In many ways the performances of Donald Trump remind me of male chimpanzees and their dominance rituals," Goodall remarked.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.