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creator of Popular corporate dystopia comic strip dilbert Made a public appeal to Donald Trump for help Access to experimental cancer treatments – And on Sunday, the US President said he would help them.
Scott Adams, a longtime Trump supporter and far-right activist on social media, revealed his diagnosis of stage 4 prostate cancer earlier this year. In a social media posting, the comic strip artist said that his disease had progressed to the point where he was severely debilitated. In July, he announced to followers that he was struggling with suicidal thoughts.
In a post at 4:29 a.m. Sunday, Adams reached out to Trump for help and claimed access to the newly-approved cancer treatment drug was being delayed due to a dispute with her health insurance provider, Kaiser of Northern California. The president hopes he can pressure the company to approve its treatment plan, Adams said.
“My healthcare provider, Kaiser of Northern California, has approved my application to receive a new FDA-approved drug called Pluvicto. But they dropped the ball in scheduling the brief IV to administer it and I can’t fix it. I’m declining rapidly. I’ll ask President Trump if he can ask Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday,” the comedian said.
Trump responded hours later on Truth Social, attaching a screenshot of Adams’ post: “On it!”
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy also responded on social media: “The President wants to help.”
It is the latest example of how the President of the United States is using his political office to benefit his personal associates in the media, public service, and culture more than any other president in the modern history of this country.
His pledge to help Adams comes just days after Trump commuted the sentence of George Santos, the fraudster and disgraced former congressman who made his public plea to the president. In May, he did the same for two reality TV stars, Todd and Julie Chrisley, and he also issued an apology to the son of a supporter who attended a fundraising event with a $1 million admission fee.
But this latest example shows Trump’s “soft” power. While the federal government as a whole and the President individually have no jurisdiction to unilaterally order a healthcare company to make decisions on behalf of a specific patient, Trump has seen success in bringing about similar results by publicly or privately pressuring corporations and individual private citizens.
The most famous use of that paradigm in recent weeks was ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel in the wake of criticism of the president over earlier comments about slain far-right activist Charlie Kirk. Trump has since also attempted to intimidate another late-night host, NBC’s Seth Meyers, off air.
After assuming office, the President also issued threats against several top law firms successfully forced Some people are engaged in providing free legal services to his supporters.
Adams, A Outspoken far right conservative, Since his diagnosis he has remained an active poster and podcast host.
His career as a comic largely collapsed in 2023 after Adams made racist remarks About black people. At the time, he revealed that he believed black people were inherently violent and urged white people to “stay away” from them. Later most of the major newspapers banned it.
In May, Adams revealed his diagnosis alongside former President Joe Biden’s announcement That he will also undergo treatment for prostate cancer. Biden’s diagnosis was particularly heartbreaking for many of his supporters, given his management of the so-called “Cancer Moonshot” effort to speed the development of cures and treatments for various forms of cancer, as well as the death of one of his sons, Beau, from glioblastoma in 2015.
The former president announced through a spokesperson that he was undergo hormone treatment and radiation therapy For cancer that had metastasized into his bones.
The same day, Adams said on his podcast: “Big story of the day. You may have heard that Joe Biden has prostate cancer, but it’s not the good kind. This is the bad kind. There’s something you need to know about prostate cancer. If it’s localized and it hasn’t left your prostate, it’s 100% curable. But if it leaves your prostate and spreads to other parts of your body, in this case, Joe Biden has it in his bones, it’s Not 100% curable.”
Adams has said that his own cancer is also incurable.