“Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams said that President Donald Trump personally reached out to him after he revealed his cancer diagnosis this week.
Adams, 67, announced on his web show on Monday that he had metastatic prostate cancer, the same type that former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with.
“I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones,” Adams said on “Coffee with Scott Adams” on Monday. “My life expectancy is maybe this summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer.”
On Thursday, Adams revealed Trump personally called him afterward to offer support.
The cartoonist said he didn’t pick up at first when Trump called because he didn’t recognize the Florida-based number. But he later discovered the president had left him a message.
“And a little bit later I thought, I better check that voicemail and see if that was anything I need to deal with. And the first sentence in the transcription, cause you know the phone gives you the text version of the voicemail as well, the first sentence is, ‘This is your favorite president,’” Adams recalled.
“And I thought to