Dilbert Creator Begs Trump to 'save his life' as he Fights Cancer

Sunday, November 02, 2025

The creator of the Dilbert cartoon strip said on Sunday that he needs Donald Trump to save his life.

Posted by retort at 09:51 PM | 14 COMMENTS | permalink

Trump posts that he's going to help Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams, who made an appeal to the president on Twitter because his insurer has been too slow to schedule a drug treatment for his cancer.

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-- Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) Nov 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM

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Fug that dirtbag.

#1 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-11-02 09:59 PM

Praying to Trump is about as pathetic as it gets.

Anyway, I have no problem with Trump stepping in to help here. But I doubt he'll even notice.

Also, why not just go to some other country to get this treatment, that part makes little sense to me. This guy's got moeny.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-02 10:01 PM

Reminds me of that deleted scene from The Godfather where Vito visits a dying Genco, who asks Vito to come meet death with him. Vito demurs explaining that he cannot. Genco persists, convinced The Don can scare away death. In a similar fashion Der Dotard doesn't do anything for anyone else unless there is something in it for him ...

#3 | Posted by catdog at 2025-11-02 10:57 PM

Ah yes, so goes the libertarian in their dire time of need.

I hope he can get the care he needs, and I hope it works.

#4 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-11-02 11:55 PM

Isn't it a bad idea to keep Jayzus waiting so close to Armageddon?

#5 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-11-03 02:28 AM

I loved Dilbert... it was like he was at my work meetings every day. Dilbert and Doonesbury were my morning cartoon fix.

Dilbert dropped offline, so now I just have Doonesbury.

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-03 02:39 AM

He knows what hes doing.

By begging publicly he's forcing trump to help him.

It's worth pointing out that any of use would do the same if we were dying from cancer.

#7 | Posted by Tor at 2025-11-03 02:50 AM

It's worth pointing out that any of use would do the same if we were dying from cancer.

#7 | Posted by Tor at 2025-11-03 02:50 AM | Reply | Flag: PPPFFFTTTTT

Sooooooooo... is this the bargaining with GAWD phase?

Why isn't he embracing the heaven thing?
Sitting on the right hand of gawd?
Going home to the loving arms of the awemitee?

#8 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-11-03 05:23 AM

Really?... He wants Kasier to pay for an experimental drug?

It's just another wealthy white conservative man... asking for privilege.

He has the money... if his life means that much to him... he's a capitalist... he can pay for it himself.

Besides... what if... the cancer to his reproductive organ was caused by Viagra or Cialis?... popular drugs the insurance company paid for?

Men would still take it right?

lol

#9 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-11-03 05:34 AM

Understandable desperation in that message.
But why should it go to the top of the heap?
There are lots of folks who are existential straits.
And Donald Trump doesn't give a pink flamingo's fart about them.
Never has, never will.
He might as well have written that "Dilbert" line himself:
"A friend in need is a pest indeed."

#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-03 05:48 AM

Why is a drug in its "experimental stage" being paid for by insurance companies and consumers... and financial risks not resting solely on the shoulders of the investors who ultimately stand to profit?

#11 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-11-03 06:16 AM

It sure seems to me... patients being "experimented" on... or used in the "experimental phase" would be given the treatments designed to do nothing more than temporarily extend their lives... Its the least Big Pharma can do for the privilege of using their one and only bodies as a living laboratory... to test a theory...

Ultimate rich country con job if there ever was one.

#12 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-11-03 06:26 AM

It's worth pointing out that any of use would do the same if we were dying from cancer.

#7 | Posted by Tor

Speak for yourself.

#13 | Posted by jpw at 2025-11-03 09:06 AM

Not sure why people are saying this is experimental.

It's FDA approved but from what I can gather requires fairly significant monitoring after infusion.

So, it's likely more than a "simple IV" that's the problem.

In any case, it's always funny to me watching absolutely dog s*&^ individuals suddenly turn into humanity pleading 'what about me, man?' types when they suddenly need it. Stick with your ethos, show us how good they are and lead by example so others will follow them.

#14 | Posted by jpw at 2025-11-03 09:24 AM

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