Dilbert creator and social media kook Scott Adams has revealed that he doesn’t expect to be around much longer. In the wake of the announcement that Joe Biden has an aggressive form of prostate cancer that’s spread to the bone, the 67-year-old cartoonist took to a live stream to tell viewers he’s suffering from the same condition.
Adams said: “I have the same cancer Joe Biden has. I also have prostate cancer. It has also spread to my bones. But, I’ve had it longer than [Biden’s] had it. Well, longer than he’s admitted having it. So my life expectancy is maybe the summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer.”
Scott Adams — I have the exact same cancer as Joe Biden, and it has spread to my bones. I expect to die this summer.pic.twitter.com/uBrYMihTg5
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 19, 2025
Adams remains best known for the syndicated Dilbert comic strip, which satirizes the pointless drudgery of office life. However, over the last decade, he’s become known for his increasingly bizarre political proclamations, making predictions that Republicans would be hunted down like animals if Joe Biden won the 2020 election and predicting the Supreme Court would overturn the result in Trump’s favor.
Eyebrows were further raised when Scott appeared to suggest that the parents of teenage boys they suspect might commit a mass shooting must “kill your own son”, became a prominent antivaxxer, questioned the Holocaust, and saw Dilbert dropped from syndication by numerous newspapers after making racist comments on YouTube.
The time he has left
But, despite all this, we can only hope that Adams’ last weeks on Earth are as peaceful and pain-free as possible. Anyone who’s witnessed a person suffering from late-stage cancer wouldn’t wish it on their worst enemy, but Adams seems to be ready for any backlash. Later in the stream, he said:
“People are going to say it’s something I brought on myself; they’re gonna say it’s because I lived a bad life. But people are gonna be really, really terrible. So I wanted to reduce the number of months or weeks — I don’t know what I have left, weeks or months — that people were going to be terrible to me online because it’s gonna be kind of hard to spend any time online.”
The news even seems to have Adams having a rare moment of sympathy for Biden, saying, “Having watched how people treated Joe Biden when the diagnosis came, people are really cruel. They are really bad.” Perhaps this is a case of reaping what he’s sown, but if death really is knocking on Adams’ door and you feel a burning urge to be cruel to him, maybe just hold back a few months until the worst happens and you can do it with a cleaner conscience.
