Scott Adams spent his final days the same way he spent the last decade of his life.
Fighting for what he believed in and refusing to back down.
And Scott Adams lost his career for supporting Trump and died fighting to the very end.
Dilbert Creator Dies at 68 After Battle With Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert and one of the most outspoken conservative voices in America, died Tuesday at age 68 after a very public battle with metastatic prostate cancer.
His ex-wife Shelly Miles announced his death during a livestream of his show "Real Coffee with Scott Adams."
"He's not with us anymore," Miles told listeners.
Adams spent his final week receiving end-of-life care at his home in Northern California while his health crashed.
Just days before his death, Adams recorded what would become his final podcast episode.
He knew it might be his last but pushed through anyway to speak to the audience he'd built through years of daily broadcasts.
For months, Adams treated his viewers like family during his cancer journey.
He shared every setback, every failed treatment, every moment of hope and despair.
The cartoonist had been paralyzed below the waist since December after a tumor grew around his spine.
He suffered from heart failure that made breathing difficult.
On January 2, Adams told his audience the odds of recovery were "essentially zero" and that January would be "a month of transition, one way or another."
Adams Sacrificed Everything To Support Trump
Adams didn't just support Donald Trump.
He threw away his entire life for him.
In 2016, when Adams publicly backed candidate Trump, he knew exactly what he was risking.
"When I decided in 2016 that I would throw away my entire social life to back Trump, when I eventually threw away my entire career, my licensing business and book sales went to almost nothing because I was supporting Trump, I sacrificed everything," Adams said in October 2025.
And he wasn't exaggerating.
Adams gained national fame with Dilbert, a comic strip that brilliantly satirized corporate office culture.
At the height of his success, the strip ran in thousands of papers worldwide and was translated into 25 languages.
The comic spawned bestselling books, a primetime TV series on UPN, and made Adams wealthy.
But Adams saw something in Trump that others missed.
In 2015, when calling Trump the eventual winner bordered on crazy talk, Adams predicted Trump would win the presidency based on his analysis of Trump's persuasion skills.
He called Trump a "Master Persuader" and spent years defending Trump's methods and policies on his daily podcast.
The backlash was immediate and severe.
His public speaking career ended.
His licensing business collapsed.
Book sales plummeted.
Friends abandoned him.
The entertainment industry blacklisted him.
Newspapers Dropped Dilbert After 2023 Racist Comments Controversy
The final blow came in February 2023.
Adams responded on his livestream to a Rasmussen poll that asked whether people agreed with the phrase "It's OK to be white."
The results showed roughly half of Black respondents either disagreed or weren't sure.
Adams reacted by calling Black Americans a "hate group" and saying white people should "get the hell away" from them.
The backlash was instant and devastating.
Within days, hundreds of newspapers dropped Dilbert.
Andrews McMeel Syndication, which had distributed the strip for decades, severed all ties with Adams.
Penguin Random House canceled his upcoming book.
USA Today Network, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and virtually every major newspaper in America stopped running the comic strip that had been in circulation since 1989.
Adams later said his comments were taken out of context and that the cancellation was "one of the more liberating moments of his life."
He refused to apologize.
Instead, Adams relaunched Dilbert as "Dilbert Reborn," an online subscription comic strip he called "uncensored and spicier."
While he lost access to millions of longtime newspaper readers, Adams gained a huge following among conservatives who saw him as another victim of the merciless cancel culture mob.
Trump Stepped Up When Adams Needed Him Most
In November 2025, Adams faced another crisis.
His healthcare provider Kaiser refused to schedule an appointment so he could receive Pluvicto, a newly FDA-approved drug that could extend his life.
Adams publicly appealed to President Trump for help on social media.
"On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life," Adams wrote. "He offered to help me if I needed it. I need it."
Trump responded immediately.
"On it," Trump posted.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also replied, saying "The President wants to help."
Kaiser scheduled the appointment shortly after Trump got involved.
Adams credited Trump for stepping in when the healthcare system failed him, calling Trump "the best president ever" for taking "time away from running the country and a part of the world" to help with his medical crisis.
That's the Trump that Adams saw from the beginning.
The man who gets things done when others won't.
The man who helps people the establishment ignores.
Adams continued podcasting seven days a week throughout his cancer treatments.
Even after he was confined to a hospital bed, paralyzed and struggling to breathe, Adams kept his daily "Simultaneous sip" tradition where he invited viewers to "sip your favorite beverage" along with him.
He kept talking about politics, persuasion, Trump's policies, and the state of America.
Right up until the end, Adams remained the same fearless voice who sacrificed his career to speak the truth as he saw it.
Adams leaves behind ex-wives Shelly Miles and Kristina Basham, and a stepdaughter.
Sources:
- Brian Flood, "'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams dies at age 68," Fox News, January 13, 2026.
- Tim O'Brien, "Scott Adams, 'Dilbert' Cartoonist, Author, and Podcaster, Dies at 68," PJ Media, January 13, 2026.
- Variety Staff, "Scott Adams Dead: Dilbert Creator Was 68," Variety, January 13, 2026.
- Michael Cavna, "Scott Adams's 'Dilbert' is dropped by newspapers after his racist rant," The Washington Post, February 27, 2023.
- Tim Hunt, "Outspoken Trump supporter Scott Adams cheers Maduro arrest," Pleasanton Weekly, January 4, 2026.
