Scott Adams, Dilbert cartoonist and Trump fan, dead at 68

Dilbert comic strip creator Scott Adams, a vocal supporter of US President Donald Trump whose career flagged after ‌a racist rant, died on Tuesday, his former wife said. He ‍was 68.

Shelly Miles announced Adams’ passing in an online live stream in which she read a final message from the artist, whose strip lampooned life in the cubicle farms of ⁠corporate America, framed around its titular character, an engineer known for his glasses and perennially bent tie.

Adams had posted on social media about his decline from metastatic prostate cancer and made a direct appeal to Trump to get his ‍healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, to schedule treatment with the targeted radiotherapy drug ‍Pluvicto.

“On it,” Trump responded in a November 2 social media post.

On Tuesday, the Republican president noted the cartoonist’s passing.

“Sadly, the Great Influencer, Scott Adams, has passed away. He was a ‍fantastic guy, who liked and respected me when it wasn’t fashionable to do so. He bravely fought a long battle against a terrible disease,” Trump said on social media.