Dilbert creator Scott Adams has revealed that he is suffering from the same aggressive form of prostate cancer as Joe Biden and that he’ll soon be dead.
Adams announced the shock diagnosis in a Rumble stream on Monday as he said, like Biden, he has prostate cancer ‘that has also spread to my bones.’
The comic strip icon heartbreakingly revealed that doctors have told him he does not have long to live, and he ‘expects to be checking out sometime this summer.’
Adams had kept his cancer battle quiet, and although he did not say when he was diagnosed with the disease, he said he has ‘had it longer than (Biden) has had it.’
‘Well, longer than he’s admitted to having it,’ he added.
The quip about when Biden was diagnosed with his stage 4 cancer comes as medical experts quickly questioned how the former president’s condition was able to progress so severely without it being previously detected.
On Monday, leading oncologist Dr Zeke Emanuel shockingly declared to MSNBC that Biden likely had cancer when he began his presidency over four years ago.
He said despite Biden’s office saying his diagnosis came just a week after doctors found a ‘small nodule’ on his prostate, his condition ‘did not develop in the last 100, 200 days.’
‘He had it while he was President,’ Emanuel insisted. ‘He probably had it at the start of his presidency, in 2021. Yes, I don’t think there’s any disagreement about that.’
Tributes poured in for Adams after he announced his shock cancer diagnosis on Monday.
Conservative commentator Robby Starbuck urged his followers to ‘lift him up in prayer’ as he shared his surprise at Adams’ short prognosis.
‘Scott Adams is a rare man who impacted so many people that he will never really know the gravity of it,’ he wrote.
‘As he says here, his life expectancy is not likely to go past this summer but I hope it brings (him) some peace to know he’ll live on through those of us he impacted.
Scott Adams says he has the same cancer that Joe Biden has, says he expects to be “checking out” this summer.
Devastating. We are all praying for you @ScottAdamsSays!pic.twitter.com/LP3MJbZpoZ
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 19, 2025
‘Everyone please lift him up in prayer and tell him now while he’s alive just how meaningful he’s been to your life. Don’t wait until he passes to do that.’
While Adams’ cancer announcement was met with an outpouring of support, Biden’s statement sent shockwaves through Washington and divided opinions.
President Trump issued a heartfelt statement from himself and First Lady Melania Trump wishing Biden a ‘fast and successful recovery’, and Nancy Pelosi praised him as a ‘great American patriot.’
But while the White House was empathetic, Donald Trump Jr appeared to break the political truce with a social media post just hours after the announcement.
He questioned if there was a ‘coverup’ by sharing a screengrab of a post from physician Dr. Steven Quay, who called prostate cancer ‘the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases.’
Experts noted that prostate cancer can be detected early with routine bloodwork that is common for men over 50.
‘It is inconceivable that this was not being followed before he left the Presidency,’ wrote Dr. Howie Forman, a professor of radiology and biomedical imaging, public health management and economics at Yale.
He noted that the test for prostate-specific antigen would have shown he had cancer ‘for some time before this diagnosis’, given how aggressive it is.
His cancer was given a Gleason score of 9 and a Grade Group of 5, a dire stage of the rapidly-spreading disease. The highest Gleason score is 10, meaning Biden has a particularly aggressive form of cancer.
In February 2024, when Biden was the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, his longtime physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor deemed him ‘fit to serve’ following a routine physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
But Dr Forman said this should be scrutinized because Biden ‘must have had a PSA test numerous times before’ and concluded the late-stage diagnosis is ‘odd.’
In a follow-up post, the doctor questioned whether Biden had been through screening in the last 12 years and if he ‘had a normal PSA prior to [age] 70?’
‘It’s just so odd to discover this with bone [metastasis] in a man of his stature and [with his] access to care,’ Forman concluded.
