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On 24 April 2018, United States president Donald Trump hosted French president Emmanuel Macron at the White House, and the physical interactions between the two leaders was the subject of much cable news commentary as well as late-night talk show host joking: The act of Trump's jokingly brushing dandruff from Macron's shoulder was soon incorporated into memes comparing the act to an aging gorilla's attempts to put down a younger rival, a behavior supposedly noted by anthropologist Jane Goodall: We could turn up no references to this quote about gorilla dominance behavior prior to its appearance online in mid-April 2018. This result is perhaps not surprising, since Goodall was primarily known for her study of chimpanzees, not gorillas. Goodall is frequently confused with fellow primatologist Dian Fossey, whose lifelong study of gorillas was depicted in the 1988 film Gorillas in the Mist, but we found no instances of these words' previously having been attributed to Fossey (or anyone else), either. However, although this particular quote may be apocryphal, Goodall did make a comparison between then-candidate Donald Trump's actions and primate dominance rituals (referencing chimpanzees rather than gorillas), as quoted in an October 2016 article from The Atlantic:
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