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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Politics
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Dilbert cartoonist reveals Trump personally reached out following his terminal cancer announcement
"Dilbert" cartoonist Scott Adams said that President Donald Trump personally reached out to him after he revealed his cancer diagnosis this week. Adams, 67, announced on his web show on Monday that he had metastatic prostate cancer, the same type that former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with. "I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones," Adams said on "Coffee with Scott Adams" on Monday. "My life expectancy is maybe this summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer." On Thursday, Adams revealed Trump personally called him afterward to offer support. 'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Reveals Prostate Cancer Diagnosis, Predicts He Has Only Months To Live The cartoonist said he didn't pick up at first when Trump called because he didn't recognize the Florida-based number. But he later discovered the president had left him a message. Read On The Fox News App "And a little bit later I thought, I better check that voicemail and see if that was anything I need to deal with. And the first sentence in the transcription, cause you know the phone gives you the text version of the voicemail as well, the first sentence is, 'This is your favorite president,'" Adams recalled. "And I thought to myself, 'No,'" he said while chuckling. "'Did I just send the most important person in the world to voicemail?' And it turns out that I had!" Adams said the president left a "somewhat lengthy" voicemail saying he was checking in to see how Adams was doing because he had heard about his cancer diagnosis. Trump Calls Biden's Cancer Diagnosis 'Very Sad' While Questioning Timeline: 'Wasn't Informed' He said Trump left his phone number for Adams to call him back, but he didn't take the president up on his offer, feeling that Trump was just being courteous and it would be "ridiculous" to bother him with a call. "It was just a nice thing for him to say," Adams explained. "It's not like he's sitting at the Resolute Desk, waiting for my call. I thought whatever it is he's doing has got to be more important than randomly taking a call from me," he added. Adams said later the same day his phone rang, and he saw it was a call from Florida again. Trump Surprises 104-Year-old Wwii Veteran With Birthday Message After Viral Tiktok Invite "And I thought to myself, no f---ing way, there's no way he's calling me again, and I answer it, and it's Trump!" he said. Adams said Trump asked him questions about his diagnosis and whether he was getting the treatments he needed. "At the end, the strangest thing happened at the end of the call, you know, when he found out the situation was kind of dire, and I was still checking out some things that might help, he said, 'If you need anything, I'll make it happen,'" he said. "And he meant it," Adams said in disbelief. "He was completely aware of our, let's say, parallel journeys from 2015. He mentioned it, and it was just the most incredible, weird, hard to understand situation, but boy, was it fun." The White House did not immediately return Fox News Digital's request for comment. Adams is most known for creating the popular office comedy comic strip "Dilbert," which poked fun at office culture with satirical humor and social commentary. Fox News' Greg Norman contributed to this article source: Dilbert cartoonist reveals Trump personally reached out following his terminal cancer announcement
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
‘Dilbert' Creator Reveals Details of Trump Call After Announcing His Cancer Diagnosis
Dilbert creator Scott Adams has revealed the details of a surprise phone call with President Donald Trump in the wake of the illustrator's cancer diagnosis. Adams, 67, revealed on a Rumble stream Monday that he is dying from the same aggressive form of prostate cancer that former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with. He said he expects to 'check out from this domain sometime this summer.' However, the MAGA scribbler revealed on X on Thursday that a call with the commander-in-chief buoyed his spirits—but he almost ignored it. Adams, whose comic strip was dropped by hundreds of newspapers in 2023 after he called Black Americans a 'hate group,' said that a few days after his cancer bombshell, he received a call from a 'number from Florida' that he didn't recognise. He let it go straight to voicemail and his jaw dropped when he checked it out. 'The first sentence in the [voicemail] transcription… is, 'This is your favorite president,'' Adams said. 'Did I just send the most important person in the world to voicemail?' Trump left a number for Adams to call him back. 'Now obviously I don't call him back because that would be ridiculous. It just was a nice thing for him to say,' he explained. 'I thought to myself, 'No f---ing way,'' he then said, after explaining that a Florida number called him again just a few hours later. 'I answer it, and it's Trump,' Adams said. 'He was just checkin' on me and he wanted to make sure that I was getting everything I needed.' He said when Trump learned the extent of Adams' situation, he offered to help. 'At the end, the strangest thing happened. At the end of the call, when he found out that the situation was kinda dire,' Adams explained, 'He said, 'If you need anything, I'll make it happen.' And he meant it.' He said Trump was 'aware' of their 'parallel journeys from 2015.' Adams became a vocal Trump supporter after he announced his first White House bid. Adams predicted he would win the race because of his persuasion skills. His interest in Trump grew and grew, and culminated in the book Win Bigly. The illustrator, who created Dilbert in 1989, said earlier last week that he's 'had it [cancer] longer than [Biden] has had it' before adding, 'Well, longer than he's admitted to having it.' The artist, who is also an author, said that 'every day is a nightmare' with prostate cancer. 'The disease is already intolerable. I can tell you that I don't have good days,' Adams said. '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.' Adams defended his 2023 comments about race on his podcast at the time, saying, 'You should absolutely be racist whenever it's to your advantage.' He later defended these comments, saying they were intended as hyperbole. In 2020, Trump retweeted an episode of the podcast Real Coffee with Scott Adams, where the host mocked Joe Biden. Adams discussed his call with Trump in the wake of former President Joe Biden's revelation that he has aggressive prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. His announcement spawned a MAGA inquisition into just when he fell ill, and whether it was covered up when he was in office.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Dilbert' creator reveals call with President Trump after cancer diagnosis: ‘Did I just send the president to voicemail?'
He's the Commander in Mensch. 'Dilbert' creator and online pundit Scott Adams received not one, but two phone calls — and a voicemail — from President Trump following the beloved cartoonist's shocking cancer announcement. The 'Reframe Your Brain' author, 67, revealed Monday that he, like former President Joe Biden, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. Days after the announcement, Adams received a call from a 'number from Florida' that he didn't recognize and sent straight to voicemail, he revealed in a video shared on X Thursday. 'The first sentence of the [voicemail] transcription…is 'This is your favorite president,'' Adams said, chuckling, adding, 'Did I just send the most important person in the world to voicemail?'President Trump left a 'semi-lengthy' voicemail checking in on Adams that included a number the 'Dilbert Principle' writer was to use to call him back. 'Now obviously I don't call him back because that would be ridiculous. It was just a nice thing for him to say,' the celebrated scrawler rationalized. Several hours later, Adams gets another call from a 'Florida number' he doesn't recognize — 'I thought to myself, 'No f—king way.'' 'I answer it and it's Trump,' Adams recounted, still in disbelief. 'He was just checkin' on me and he wanted to make sure I was getting everything I needed,' he said. The 'Win Bigly' author has been a Trump booster since the 2015 Republican Primary and a vocal online pundit for the two-time president on his daily internet show 'Coffee with Scott Adams.' 'At the end, the strangest thing happened. At the end of the call, when he found out that the situation was kinda dire,' Adams recalled, 'He said, 'If you need anything, I'll make it happen.'' 'And he meant it,' he added, laughing in disbelief. In the wake of Biden's dramatic health news announced earlier this week, Adams revealed that he has the same diagnosis and that he expects to die in the coming months. 'I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones,' Adams said during an episode of 'Coffee with Scott Adams' on Monday. 'My life expectancy is maybe this summer,' he added. 'I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer.' Biden, 82, announced through a spokesperson Sunday that he has 'aggressive' prostate cancer that spread to the bones, which was supposedly discovered just this month. 'Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms,' a statement from Biden's personal office read. 'On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone.' President Trump has expressed doubt regarding the claim that Biden just found out about the ghastly Stage 9 cancer diagnosis. 'I'm surprised the public wasn't notified a long time ago,' Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office Monday. 'This is dangerous for our country,' he added.
New York Post
23-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
‘Dilbert' creator reveals call with President Trump after cancer diagnosis: ‘Did I just send the president to voicemail?'
He's the Commander in Mensch. 'Dilbert' creator and online pundit Scott Adams received not one, but two phone calls — and a voicemail — from President Trump following the beloved cartoonist's shocking cancer announcement. The 'Reframe Your Brain' author, 67, revealed Monday that he, like former President Joe Biden, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. Advertisement 4 President Trump called Dilbert creator Scott Adams twice after he revealed his cancer diagnosis. Collin Rugg/X Days after the announcement, Adams received a call from a 'number from Florida' that he didn't recognize and sent straight to voicemail, he revealed in a video shared on X Thursday. 'The first sentence of the [voicemail] transcription…is 'This is your favorite president,'' Adams said, chuckling, adding, 'Did I just send the most important person in the world to voicemail?' President Trump left a 'semi-lengthy' voicemail checking in on Adams that included a number the 'Dilbert Principle' writer was to use to call him back. Advertisement 'Now obviously I don't call him back because that would be ridiculous. It was just a nice thing for him to say,' the celebrated scrawler rationalized. Several hours later, Adams gets another call from a 'Florida number' he doesn't recognize — 'I thought to myself, 'No f—king way.'' 'I answer it and it's Trump,' Adams recounted, still in disbelief. 4 President Donald Trump attends a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission Event in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, May 22, 2025. AP Advertisement 'He was just checkin' on me and he wanted to make sure I was getting everything I needed,' he said. The 'Win Bigly' author has been a Trump booster since the 2015 Republican Primary and a vocal online pundit for the two-time president on his daily internet show 'Coffee with Scott Adams.' 'At the end, the strangest thing happened. At the end of the call, when he found out that the situation was kinda dire,' Adams recalled, 'He said, 'If you need anything, I'll make it happen.'' 'And he meant it,' he added, laughing in disbelief. Advertisement 4 The 'Reframe Your Brain' author, 67, revealed Monday that he, like former President Joe Biden, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. Collin Rugg/X In the wake of Biden's dramatic health news announced earlier this week, Adams revealed that he has the same diagnosis and that he expects to die in the coming months. 'I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones,' Adams said during an episode of 'Coffee with Scott Adams' on Monday. 'My life expectancy is maybe this summer,' he added. 'I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer.' 4 Adams poses for a portrait with the Dilbert character in his studio in Dublin, Calif., Oct. 26, 2006. AP Biden, 82, announced through a spokesperson Sunday that he has 'aggressive' prostate cancer that spread to the bones, which was supposedly discovered just this month. 'Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms,' a statement from Biden's personal office read. 'On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone.' President Trump has expressed doubt regarding the claim that Biden just found out about the ghastly Stage 9 cancer diagnosis. Advertisement 'I'm surprised the public wasn't notified a long time ago,' Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office Monday. 'This is dangerous for our country,' he added.
Time of India
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
‘Dilbert' creator Scott Adams, battling same cancer as Joe Biden, says Donald Trump called to offer help
Scott Adams Scott Adams, the creator of the famous comic strip Dilbert, revealed in a recent livestream that US President Donald Trump called him amid his battle with aggressive prostate cancer, the same illness former President Joe Biden has. Adams shared the story on Thursday while livestreaming on the video platform Rumble. He explained that Trump first called from an 'unknown' number, which Adams initially ignored due to receiving many calls from people checking on him about his cancer diagnosis. When he later checked his voicemail, the transcription began with, 'This is your favourite president.' Adams joked, 'Did I send the most important person in the world to voicemail?' Later that day, Adams answered a second call from the same number and spoke with Trump directly. At the end of their chat, Trump offered his support, saying, 'If you need anything I'll make it happen.' Adams described the moment as both 'weird and incredible,' especially given his difficult health situation. — CollinRugg (@CollinRugg) Scott Adams revealed on Monday that he has been diagnosed with the same aggressive form of prostate cancer as Joe Biden. He told his YouTube audience on Real Coffee with Scott Adams that his cancer has spread to his bones, causing intense pain and severely limiting his mobility. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Buy Brass Idols - Handmade Brass Statues for Home & Gifting Luxeartisanship Buy Now Undo 'I am always in pain, use a walker to get around and expect to die sometime this summer. The pain [is] basically intolerable,' Adams said. He also expressed sympathy for Biden and his family following the former president's announcement about his cancer diagnosis. Adams noted, 'I have the same cancer Joe Biden has... I've had it longer than [Biden] has had it. Well, longer than he's admitted to having it.' Adams has been open about the severity of his illness, saying that despite the pain, he values the time left to organise his affairs and say his goodbyes. 'This [cancer] is really painful. Like, really, really painful. But it's also kind of good that it gives you enough time while your brain is still working to wrap things up,' he said during his livestream. Meanwhile, medical experts have suggested that Joe Biden's cancer may have been present for years, possibly even before he became president in 2021. Oncologists point out that prostate cancer is typically easy to detect early, making the timing of Biden's recent announcement a subject of discussion.
