“Dilbert” comic strip creator Scott Adams announced Monday that, like Joe Biden, he has prostate cancer that has metastasized, saying “my life expectancy is maybe this summer.”
Adams, 67, dropped the bombshell during his daily YouTube show “Coffee with Scott Adams” while talking about Biden’s cancer diagnosis.
“I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones,” Adams said. “My life expectancy is maybe this summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer.”
Joe Biden’s office said in a statement Sunday that he has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. “The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians,” his office said.
Adams noted that he has had his cancer diagnosis longer than Biden has admitted to having his.
The cartoonist burst onto the political scene in 2016 when he shared his admiration for Trump’s formidable persuasion skills in a series of illuminating videos, despite being a “politically left” of Bernie Sanders. He eventually switched his vote from Hillary Clinton to Trump and predicted he would win in a landslide.
“In many ways, he had this level of talent that I’d never seen before,” Adams said during an interview in 2018. “So I predicted he would just slice through the field and cut them apart.”
In early 2023, hundreds of newspapers pulled Adams’ “Dilbert” comic strip after he made racially charged comments about a Rasmussen poll showing high level of black racial animosity against white people.
“If nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white people–according to this poll, not to me–that’s a hate group,” Adams said on his show in reaction to the poll. “That’s a hate group, and I don’t want anything to do with them.”
Adams later explained that he made the controversial remarks in an attempt to start a larger conversation.
“I’ve discovered that the price of free speech is really high and there are only a few people willing to pay it,” he said in an interview with black conservative activist Hotep Jesus. “So I decided to pay it so I could extend the conversation to something that everyone needs to hear.”
Adams said on his broadcast Monday that in California, he has the option of availing himself to the state’s “End of Life Option” which allows “residents who are at least 18 years old and have a terminal illness with a life expectancy of 6 months or less to request a medication that will hasten their death.”
“You do that when the disease has become intolerable,” he explained. “Now the disease has already become intolerable.”
He added matter-of-factly: “I can tell you that I don’t have good days. So if you are wondering, ‘Hey Scott, do you have any good days’? Nope. Nope. Every day is a nightmare and evening is even worse.”
“I do have the ability to kind of get up for this part of the day, but I am in pain, and I’m always in pain. And the pain moves around to different parts of my body,” Adams also said. “I’ve been using a walker to walk for months now,” the cartoonist said. “It’s basically intolerable.”