"He was just checkin’ on me"- Scott Adams details call with President Trump following diagnosis of same cancer as Joe Biden

On May 22, 2025, American cartoonist and the creator of Dilbert, Scott Adams revealed that he received a call from U.S President Donald Trump, amid his diagnosis with prostate cancer.

During a Rumble Studio livestream of his show, Coffee with Scott Adams, the cartoonist shared that initially, he did not recognize the person and chose to ignore the call.

"So I see a phone number coming in and somebody's calling me from some number I don't recognize, something in Florida, and I sent it to a voicemail, and a little bit later I thought I better check that voicemail and see if that was anything I need to deal with,” Adams said.

Adams further regretted sending the call to voicemail as he later realized that it was from the President himself.

“The first sentence is ‘This is your favorite president’ and I thought to myself, did I just send the most important person in the world to voicemail, and it turns out that I had it was Trump, and he was he was just calling to check in.”

Adams explained that in the voicemail, Trump was concerned about his health and asked the cartoonist to call him back.

“He left a semilengthy little voicemail just saying he was checking on me, he heard about my health situation, and then he says, ‘You know you can call me back on this number.’ Now, obviously I don't call him back right cuz that would just be ridiculous,” Scott Adams added.

The Dilbert creator shared, that despite not calling Trump back, he received another call from him later that afternoon.

“And I answer it, and it's Trump, and apparently he'd heard my situation, and he had lots of questions. I won't get into the details of our conversation because that would be inappropriate, but he was just checking on me, and he wanted to make sure that I was getting everything I needed.”

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More about Scott Adams' diagnosis with prostate cancer

On Monday, the Dilbert creator shared the news of his prostate cancer diagnosis, shortly after former U.S President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of the same disease.

For the unversed, last week the former U.S President was diagnosed with the same form of cancer, "characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5)," which has spread to his bones.

"Some of you have already guessed, so this won't surprise you at all, but I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. So I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones, but I've had it longer than he's had it. Well, longer than he's admitted having it. So my life expectancy is maybe this summer," Scott Adams said.

Scott Adams further explained the severity of his illness, adding:

"Now the disease is already intolerable, I can tell you that I don't have good days, so if you're wondering, 'Hey Scott, do you have any good days?' Nope, every day is a nightmare, and evening is even worse."

The 67-year-old cartoonist explained that the pain shifts to different parts of his body, and he has been using a walker to get around, adding that the pain is "intolerable." Reflecting on death and the reality of his disease, Adams further shared that he has accepted his fate because it gives him the chance to put his "affairs together" and say his goodbyes.

"If you had to pick a way to die, this one's 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," Adams added.

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Born on June 8, 1957, Scott Adams created the 1989 comic Dilbert, aimed to poke fun at office culture. However, numerous news outlets, including The Washington Post and The USA Today Network, stopped publishing the comic strip due to racist remarks made by Adams on several occasions.