Ex-NFL Player Who Protested Trump Doubles Down On 'Very Clear' Nazi-MAGA Parallels

Chirs Kluwe continued his blunt criticism of the MAGA movement just days after police hauled him out of a city council meeting in California.

A former NFL punter who recently made headlines for protesting Donald Trump doubled down on his criticisms of the president on Friday as he declared that the U.S. is “on the path” Nazi Germany went down under Adolf Hitler.

“The parallels are very, very clear,” said Chris Kluwe, who spent much of his NFL career with the Minnesota Vikings, in an interview with CNN’s Sara Sidner.

Kluwe was hauled out of a city council meeting by police in Huntington Beach, California on Tuesday after he weighed in on plans for a library plaque with a MAGA reference.

The former NFL player, in remarks at the meeting, “explicitly” tied the MAGA movement to Nazism prior to engaging in what he described as a “peaceful civil disobedience.” He was arrested for disrupting a public assembly, police records show.

Kluwe, in his interview with Sidner, reiterated his critique of the Trump administration for “trying to thrust our country into turmoil in order to reap power for themselves.”