Scott Adams took to the social networking site X on Sunday, November 2, and pleaded with U.S. President Donald Trump for help regarding his cancer treatment. Adams is an American author, cartoonist, and political commentator, best known for creating the Dilbert comic strip.“On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life. He offered to help me if I needed it. I need it. As many of you know, I have metastasised prostate cancer,” Scott began his post.The cartoonist claimed that his healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, has “approved” his application to receive a “newly FDA-approved drug called Pluvicto.” However, he accused Kaiser of dropping the ball in scheduling “the brief IV to administer” the targeted radiotherapy drug, adding he was unable to “fix” it.“I am declining fast. I will ask President Trump if he can get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday. That will give me a fighting chance to stick around on this planet a little bit longer. It is not a cure, but it does give good results to many people,” he concluded.The post has gone viral, amassing over 22.4 million views at the time of writing and thousands of reposts. Responding to one such post, Donald Trump wrote “On it,” according to Reuters.Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSaysLINKOn Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life. He offered to help me if I needed it. I need it. As many of you know, I have metastasized prostate cancer.My healthcare provider, Kaiser of Northern California, has approved my application to receive a newly FDA-approved drug called Pluvicto. But they have dropped the ball in scheduling the brief IV to administer it and I can’t seem to fix that. I am declining fast. I will ask President Trump if he can get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday. That will give me a fighting chance to stick around on this planet a little bit longer.It is not a cure, but it does give good results to many people.All you need to know about Scott Adams' life and careerScott Adams was born in June 1957 in Windham, New York. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics from Hartwick College and later obtained an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He also attended Dale Carnegie Training.In the late 1970s, Adams began working in the telecommunications field and was employed by Crocker National Bank before joining Pacific Bell. While still working at the latter, he launched his Dilbert comic strip via United Media in 1989. It was about an engineer in a white-collar job.By the mid-1990s, the comic series gained national prominence, and Scott Adams left his office job to become a full-time cartoonist. In 1997, he won the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist and Best Newspaper Comic Strip.Dilbert was soon adapted into a television series in 1999 and aired for two seasons on UPN, and went on to win a Primetime Emmy Award. It was also adapted into a video game and themed merchandise. Over the years, Scott Adams also wrote several books, including God’s Debris, The Religion War, and Loserthink.In February 2023, the political commentator faced controversy after he called African Americans a “hate group” while responding to a conservative organization, Rasmussen Reports’ survey, that 26 percent of them disagreed with the slogan, “It’s okay to be white.”Back then, he said on YouTube that White Americans should “get the hell away from” Black Americans, and he would no longer “help” them.“Based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people,”While Scott Adams later claimed his remarks were meant to be “hyperbole,” were taken out of context, and he personally denounced racists, he faced backlash and was dropped by many publishers, including The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and Andrews McMeel Universal.He also defended himself on X by writing:“I lost three careers to direct racism so far. Crocker Bank, Pacific Bell, and cartooning. All three were perpetrated by White people for their own gain. No Black person has ever discriminated against me. That's partly why I identified as Black for several years.”"You should absolutely be racist whenever it’s to your advantage. But you should also avoid any group that doesn’t respect you, even if there are people within the group who are fine,” Scott Adams added.The cartoonist later relaunched Dilbert as a webcomic on his website locals.com. He launched a daily video series called Real Coffee With Scott Adams in 2015(now a podcast), where he showed his vocal support for Donald Trump and predicted that the real estate mogul would win the 2016 presidential election, based on his analysis.Scott Adams, 67, has been married twice. According to Distractify, he exchanged wedding vows with Shelly Miles in July 2006 in San Francisco, after meeting her at a gym. He became a stepfather to Miles’ two children from past relationships. The marriage ended in 2014. However, they remain on good terms."She moved only a block away, and we remain best friends. The problem was never our feelings for each other but rather the restrictions of blending two sets of preferences." Adams later shared in a ‘Psychology Today’ blog post.Six years later, he tied the knot with model, pilot, influencer, and baker Kristina Basham. They divorced less than two years later in 2022.Adams first spoke about his cancer diagnosis in a May 2025 episode of his podcast, Real Coffee with Scott Adams, followed by a YouTube livestream. The following month, he announced planning to go through a physician-assisted suicide, but later opted out when he discovered a way to deal with his pain.Now, in November, the writer has pleaded with Trump to help him with his treatment. Several followers commented under his post showing their support for Scott Adams, including the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, who wrote:“Scott, how do I reach you? The President wants to help.”Meanwhile, Kaiser Permanente has released a statement via Reuters, claiming that its team was “working closely” with Adams on the “next steps in his cancer care,” adding that they were already “underway.”