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Amanda Kloots, widow of Nick Cordero, blasts President Trump for tweeting ‘Don’t be afraid of Covid’

Broadway star Nick Cordero passed away in July after a months-long battle with COVID-19

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In this April 10, 2014, file photo, actor Nick Cordero attends the after-party for the opening night of “Bullets Over Broadway” in New York. Tony Award-nominated actor Cordero, who specialized in playing tough guys on Broadway in such shows as “Waitress,” “A Bronx Tale” and “Bullets Over Broadway,” has died in Los Angeles after suffering severe medical complications after contracting the coronavirus.

In this April 10, 2014, file photo, actor Nick Cordero attends the after-party for the opening night of “Bullets Over Broadway” in New York. Cordero died July 5, 2020, at Cedars-Sinai hospital after more than 90 days in the hospital, according to his wife, Amanda Kloots.

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Amanda Kloots — on the three-month anniversary of the death of her husband, Broadway star Nick Cordero — called out President Donald Trump for what she called a “hurtful” and “disgraceful” message about COVID-19 on Monday, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

As he was preparing to be discharged from Walter Reed Memorial Hospital Monday, Trump tweeted a message telling the American people, “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.”

Over 200,000 Americans have lost their lives to COVID-19 — including Cordero, who spent months battling the virus in an ICU before the 41-year-old actor died in July, according to Fox News.

“Unfortunately it did dominate our lives didn’t it?” Kloots wrote in an Instagram post Monday evening. “It dominated Nick’s family’s lives and my family’s lives. I guess we ‘let it’ — like it was our choice??”

“Unfortunately not everyone is lucky enough to spend two days in the hospital,” Kloots continued. “I cried next to my husband for 95 days watching what COVID did to the person I love. It IS something to be afraid of.”

Cordero was intubated on April 1 and suffered a variety of complications while in the hospital, including blood clotting that led to his right leg being amputated, according to CBS News.

Cordero and Kloots married in 2017 and share a 1-year-old son, Elvis, according to “Good Morning America.”

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“After you see the person you love the most die from this disease you would never say what this tweet says,” Kloots wrote on Instagram. “There is no empathy to all the lives lost. He is bragging instead. It is sad. It is hurtful. It is disgraceful.”

Kloots also had a message for Trump, which she shared in a video to her followers on her Instagram story Monday night.

“Please just say something kind,” Kloots said in the video, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Say something that might make the people that you lead feel like you got us, that you’re wrapping your arms around us, that you maybe understand a little bit, you kind of understand what we went through and what we’re going through.”