How can I disable the Palpatine 'Where've You Been?!' screen?

Solution 1:

Although you can't disable the screen, you can skip it quickly. The continue button doesn't appear for a second or two, but even before it appears you can tap that spot on the screen to immediately dismiss it.

Solution 2:

In my opinion, you can't.

I know it's annoying and frankly the whole animation is way too long without the option to skip it... But I've been looking all over the game myself and didn't find any disable option.

The game came out like 5 days ago, so we can hope that Nimblebit includes this issue in one of their updates. There's stil a lot of bugs, so I'm expecting an update very soon :-)