Ex-NFL player makes ‘Nazi’ comparison to GOP bill

Former NFL player and candidate for the California state assembly, Chris Kluwe, weighed in Wednesday on the passage of the Protect Children’s Innocence Act in the US House of Representatives.

Kluwe, who was fired from his job as the high school’s new football coach in February after a speech at a city council meeting in which he called MAGA a “Nazi movement,” once again made Nazi comparisons while discussing the bill in a BlueSky post.

“F— every one of these a–holes. Once again this is literally what the Nazis did,” Kluwe wrote while sharing a news article about the bill’s passage in the House.

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The bill, which is sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., would make it a Class C felony to treat minors with gender-affirming care like surgeries and puberty blockers, and doctors who provide such treatments face up to 10 years in prison.

Kluwe elaborated on his post in a statement to Pakinomist Digital.

“Trying to criminalize the trans community is literally step one from the Nazi playbook … and anyone who voted ‘yes’ to this should be ashamed of themselves. If these cowardly culture war divers actually wanted to protect children, they would pass gun control and universal health care,” Kluwe said.

There are no available historical records to prove that the Nazi regime actively imprisoned doctors who performed gender reassignments on children. A prominent German doctor who specialized in transgender science, Magnus Hirschfeld, was forced into exile after his citizenship was revoked in 1933. Records indicate that Hirschfeld performed sex-change procedures on adults.

The House vote for the Protect Children’s Innocence Act was 216-211. Three Democrats supported the measure, while four Republicans opposed it.

A similar bill sponsored by Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, bans federal Medicaid funding for gender reassignment procedures for minors. The bill is expected to be voted on in Parliament on Thursday.

Kluwe became a lightning rod for backlash from conservatives in 2025 after his first viral city council comments in February. He was arrested during a meeting when he said he wants other officials to “start engaging in civil disobedience.”

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Former NFL player Chris Kluwe protests during the City Council meeting in Huntington Beach, California. (City of Huntington Beach)

Klue spoke against placing a plaque with a “MAGA” acronym outside the city’s library for its 50th anniversary. The plate will have the words “Magical”, “Alluring”, “Galvanizing” and “Adventurous” next to each other. It will also read: “Through hope and change, our nation has built better back to the golden era of making America great again!”

The former NFL player then performed his “peaceful civil disobedience” as he rushed the council members before he was arrested and carried out by police officers. He was later charged with disturbing an assembly.

Days later, Kluwe appeared on CNN and he did not back down from his position.

“I think we are on the path that Nazi Germany went down under Hitler,” he said. “And I say that as a political science and history major, as someone who studied history. And the parallels are very, very clear.”

Kluwe announced he was fired from his first-year coaching job on social media later that month.

“Just got fired from being a new football coach if you want to know what MAGA is doing to communities,” Kluwe wrote on BlueSky later in February. “They don’t care what helps people, because the school certainly isn’t going to find a former NFL player willing to coach there at that level, they only care about trying to hurt people.”

Kluwe later told CNN that the school fired him because the incident “got too much attention.”

In September, Kluwe incited even more backlash for comments about the murder of Charlie Kirk.

The former tipster posted a post praising Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., for rejecting the idea that Democratic rhetoric led to the assassination.

“F—ing finally. Fight back against the bulls — framing that tries to make them responsible for everything. The GOP chooses to create this kind of societal environment. They could stop it at any time. They have agency too. They are not f—ing children (except when, well, you know),” Kluwe wrote.

Kluwe posted an earlier post suggesting that Kirk created “the kind of society he currently lives in.”

“It is possible to hold both of these things true at the same time: 1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society 2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth,” Kluwe wrote.

Shortly after the shooting took place, Kluwe posted a post apparently mocking Kirk for being shot.

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Founder of Turning Point Action Charlie Kirk and Chris Kluwe (Getty Images/IMAGN)

Above a news article reporting that Kirk had been shot, Kluwe captioned, “ ‘Hahaha yes! This rules!’ ‘what the f— .'”

Kluwe punted for the Minnesota Vikings from 2005-12 after going undrafted out of UCLA.