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Joe Exotic says he’ll be ‘dead in 2-3 months’ in bizarre George Floyd comparison

Joe Exotic predicted he’ll be “dead in 2-3 months” as he compared himself to George Floyd in a desperate new jailhouse letter to his fans.

The “Tiger King” star — who’s serving a 22-year sentence for the bonkers murder-for-hire plot of zoo nemesis Carole Baskin — begged President Trump to grant him a “miracle” by springing him from prison.

“My soul is dead,” the flamboyant former Oklahoma zookeeper wrote in a three-page letter obtained by TMZ. “I struggle every day to hold on to what little hope I can find.”

Exotic, 57, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, said he suffered from common variable immune deficiency and anemia and hasn’t received his required blood transfusion since January.

“I’m loosing [sic] weight, sores won’t heal, I’ll be dead in 2-3 months,” he wrote. “It’s like I have been sent to death row.”

The 57-year-old jail bird complains that people have been profiting off of him — including his much-younger husband Dillon Passage — following the release of “Tiger King,” the uber-popular Netflix docu-series about his twisted rivalry with Baskin.

“It’s like George Floyd. His message got lost on the riots, my message got abandon [sic] for money and fame,” Exotic wrote.

He urged people to stop sending him photos of Passage, his 22-year-old hubby, partying with friends, indicating that the two haven’t spoken in some time.

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“It’s not cool, not funny and is not healthy for me. If he has moved on he should tell me,” Exotic said.

The ex-owner of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Wynnewood, Oklahoma was found guilty last year trying to hire a hitman to kill his enemy Baskin, who runs a similar big cat zoo in Florida. He was also convicted of killing tigers and selling tiger cubs.