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Commentator and cartoonist Scott Adams of “Dilbert” fame took a victory lap from his home in the Pleasanton hills Saturday.
Adams, who is confined to a hospital bed by cancer-caused paralysis below his waist, celebrated the American military and law enforcement action to arrest Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in their Caracas compound and take them to New York to be indicted to face narco-terrorist charges.
Adams, 68, recounted how he threw away his social life and professional life when he publicly backed candidate Donald Trump in 2016, “sacrificing everything.” He told listeners on his podcast, Real Coffee with Scott Adams, that he did so “because it was worth it.” His X tweet said simply, “This is why.”
His delight in seeing Trump take down Maduro and settle wars around the globe is sadly tempered by his declining health. After former President Joe Biden announced his metastasized prostate cancer last summer, Adams went public with his similar diagnosis and said he didn’t think he would make it to 2026.
Adams, a Kaiser patient, publicly appealed to President Trump for help in early December and received a response from the president who asked a few senior administration officials to get involved. Adams’ next podcast was more conciliatory toward Kaiser as it became clear that he had more information from the health care provider about what was required for his next treatment.
Adams, with the exception of ugly hours-long coughing fits and challenges to breathing, has kept up his daily podcasts including from an ambulance en route to a radiation treatment that doctors hoped would ease paralysis. It did not.
His New Year’s Day podcast included the health update with his expectation that he would transition in January. He said, “I talked to my radiologist yesterday, he was working on the day before New Year’s, and it’s all bad news. So, the odds of me recovering are essentially zero. So, I’ll give you any updates if that changes, but it won’t. So, there’s no chance I’ll get my feeling back in my legs, and I’ve got some ongoing heart failure, which is making it difficult to breathe sometimes during the day.
“But at the moment I can breathe, and I’m not in any pain. However, you should prepare yourself that January will be probably a month of transition one way or the other. Now I haven’t made any decisions, but it was all bad news. No good news at all. So, I will keep doing this as long as it makes sense, because I like doing it. It keeps me busy. You know what’s weird is that I have much bigger problems than the stuff I’m talking about in the news, but I’m so interested in what’s happening in the world that it’s very engaging.”
Adams also asked for an update on conservative scholar Victor Davis Hansen who underwent surgery last week after a nine-month effort to diagnose his issue. No public update has been issued and Hansen did not specify what his health issue was when he announced the surgery.
The president responded to Adams’ Jan. 1 statement writing it was “heartbreaking.”
