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23-05-2025
- Politics
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‘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.
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23-05-2025
- Entertainment
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‘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.
