Scott Adams passed away on Tuesday morning at 68. The popular author and cartoonist was diagnosed with prostate cancer last May. Adams was an OG MAGA warrior. He was a moderate Democrat, but his intelligence and understanding of human nature and the power of persuasion quickly allowed him to “get” candidate Donald Trump years ago. He saw in Trump what the rest of us instinctually understood, and Adams was able to condense “Trumpism” in understandable terms. He made it acceptable for normal people who were swimming in an ocean of mainstream media lies to be Trump supporters. We owe him for that.

Adams was one of the greatest cartoonists who ever lived. His ‘Dilbert’ comic strip was syndicated in 2,000 newspapers at its peak. Adams’ jokes about corporate bureaucracy, anti-production mandates from hapless corporate leadership, and spending a third of your adult life in a cubicle struck a chord with readers everywhere.

Dilbert was funny and insightful. It was apolitical in nature, and everyone could relate to it. It was one of the funniest and most popular cartoons of all time. The newspaper syndication alone generated around $1.5 million a year for Scott Adams. He also had licensing and corporate deals for the comic strip that were highly lucrative.

In mid-2015, Adams started talking about politics. He specifically declared early on that candidate Donald Trump was a “master persuader,” and that Trump would win the Republican nomination and the 2016 election as a result. Adams was one of the most popular mainstream figures to endorse Donald Trump in 2015.

And then the knives came out. However, the newspapers kept Dilbert in syndication at that point. They didn’t want to give up the gravy train that Scott Adams provided to their failing industry by adding value to their papers. The fake newspaper industry had turned into such hot garbage by 2016 that Dilbert was about the only reason to keep a subscription.

Adams started talking more about politics and Trump’s power of persuasion after that. People flocked to his livestreams on Twitter (now X) and Rumble to see him explain Trump’s masterful rhetoric in easy-to-understand terms.

Here’s just one example: Trump’s “Muslim ban” in 2017.

Our lax immigration policies had been bringing Muslim terrorists into the country for years. The terrorists were coming from Third World dumps with non-existent record-keeping capabilities. It’s impossible to vet people from these countries because they’re basically “ghosts” when they try to move here. And then they shoot up an office full of people, like the Pakistani husband and wife did in San Bernardino in 2015.

Trump proposed banning immigration from those countries, because it’s a stupid and unsafe policy. He was immediately branded “Literally Hitler” by the media, and they twisted themselves into knots trying to prove that his “Muslim ban” was racist and reminiscent of Germany in 1938.

Scott Adams correctly explained that if someone proposes a perfectly sensible and moderate solution like the “Muslim ban,” and you resort to calling that person “Literally Hitler”—you’ve already lost the argument.

In 2023, Adams announced that he was endorsing Donald Trump for reelection in 2024. He also declared that Trump would win the election. That was a bridge too far for the fake news media.

Adams was suddenly branded a “racist” and Dilbert was mass-cancelled from 2,000 newspapers overnight. His corporate licensing deals were also pulled. It cost him millions of dollars for simply saying he supported Donald Trump. He took it in stride. He already had plenty of “F you money” by that point.

Adams argued bitterly with his audience over the so-called COVID “vaccines” from 2021 through 2025. He trusted the science and took the jabs. His stance changed dramatically last May, when he was suddenly diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer.

His prognosis was terrible. People normally live 5 to 6 years after a prostate cancer diagnosis. Adams was given months to live. After announcing that he only had a few months to live, Adams conceded to the “anti-vaxxers,” finally admitting that those of us who refused the shots “got it right.”

Even after he knew he was dying from turbo cancer, Adams continued to cheerfully greet his audience every morning for his “Coffee with Scott Adams” show. One of his greatest pieces of advice to everyone was something he lived until the very end: Be useful to others.

In early January, Scott Adams converted to Christianity. On Tuesday morning, he went home to his reward.

Rest in peace. Well done, friend.