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WASHINGTON — President Trump said Sunday he planned to help the creator of the satirical comic strip “Dilbert” get access to a prostate cancer drug. Scott Adams, known for his office humor comic Dilbert as well as his controversial opinions livestreamed on YouTube, wrote early Sunday morning on X that he was going to ask President Trump — whom he said has already offered to help — to save his life. Advertisement “As many of you know, I have metastasized prostate cancer,” he wrote. “My healthcare provider, Kaiser of Northern California, has approved my application to receive a newly FDA-approved drug called Pluvicto,” referring to a targeted therapy for metastatic prostate cancer approved in March by the Food and Drug Administration for use earlier in treatment. “But they have dropped the ball in scheduling the brief IV to administer it and I can’t seem to fix that,” he added. He asked for the president’s help in getting it scheduled for Monday. Hours later, Trump posted a screenshot of Adams’ request on Truth Social, writing “On it!” Advertisement Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had also replied earlier from his personal X account, asking Adams how he could get in touch. “The President wants to help,” Kennedy wrote. Kaiser Permanente of Northern California didn’t respond to a request for comment, nor did the White House or HHS respond to questions about what happens next. Adams announced in May he had the “same cancer” as President Biden and said he expected to die sometime this year. His long-running comic was dropped from its distributors in 2023 after Adams posted a racist rant on YouTube calling Black people a “hate group.” Adams has continued to livestream daily on YouTube, where he shares his political opinions. In his May stream announcing his cancer, he said he’d used anti-parasitic medications ivermectin and fenbendazole to treat himself, but they didn’t work. There’s no evidence that ivermectin works as a cancer treatment.
