The creator of the comic strip Dilbert, which was canceled by most newspapers two years ago due to the creator's racist comments, said on Monday that he has been diagnosed with the same aggressive prostate cancer as former President Joe Biden.
"I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has," Scott Adams said on Monday during an episode of his YouTube show, Real Coffee with Scott Adams.
"So I also have a prostate cancer that has spread to my bones," he declared after expressing his "respect, compassion, and sympathy" for Biden and his family.
Biden announced his diagnosis on Sunday and said he and his family were reviewing treatment options with their doctors.
67-year-old Adams said he is always in pain, uses a walker to get around, and expects to die at some point this summer.
Adams said he had time to process his diagnosis and that it had given him time to say goodbye, get his affairs in order, and do all the things he needed to do.
The comic strip Dilbert first appeared in 1989, mocking office culture. It was published for decades in numerous newspapers but disappeared in 2023 following racist comments by Adams.
In his YouTube show at the time, among other things, he described blacks as a "hate group" and said he would no longer "help African Americans." He later said he was being exaggerated but continued to defend his stance.
Several media editors across the United States denounced the comments as racist, hateful, and discriminatory, stating they would no longer provide a platform for his work.
The editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, who dropped Dilbert in 2022, stated that the comic strip "went from being hilarious to hurtful and mean-spirited."