Disgraced “Dilbert” comic strip creator Scott Adams died after a battle with stage 4 prostate cancer. He was 68.
Adams’ ex-wife, Shelly Miles, announced his death in a January 13 episode of his “Coffee with Scott Adams” podcast.
In an X (Twitter) post in November, Adams begged President Trump to “help save my life” after his healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente, “dropped the ball” on his experimental cancer treatment.
Trump replied “On it!”
Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr also replied to Adams in a tweet on X.
Adams confirmed his prostate cancer diagnosis in March 2025. He was approved for a new FDA-approved prostate cancer drug called Pluvicto. But Kaiser “dropped the ball in scheduling the brief IV to administer it,” Adams wrote on X.
He added: “On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life. He offered to help me if I needed it. I need it.”
On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life. He offered to help me if I needed it.
I need it.
As many of you know, I have metastasized prostate cancer.
My healthcare provider, Kaiser of Northern California, has approved my application to receive a…
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 2, 2025
In a recent post on X, Adams said he was in hospice and he only had days to live.
“I accept Jesus Christ as my lord and savior, and I look forward to spending an eternity with him,” Adams wrote in his final message on X. “If you are reading this, things did not go well for me.”
Newspapers pulled Dilbert comic strip after controversial statements
Adams was cancelled in 2023 after he made controversial statements about Black people in an episode of his podcast.
Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the US, announced it would no longer run the Dilbert comic strips after Adams labeled Black Americans as a “hate group”.
Other newspaper publishers soon followed Gannett’s lead.
In a 2023 episode of his podcast, Adams said a poll showed “nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with White people.”
“If so, that’s a hate group. Black people can be racist, too… That’s 47% of Blacks not willing to say it’s OK to be White. That’s like a real poll. This just happened.”
Adams urged white people to get away from “Blacks”.
“Just get the f–k away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. Because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed.”
