Former NFL -Punter Chris Kluwe said he was fired from his job as California High School football coach after a speech at a city council meeting in which he called Maga a “Nazi movement.”
“Just got fired from being a beginner football coach if you want to know what Maga is doing with the local communities,” Kluwe wrote on Bluesky on Thursday. “They don’t care what helps people because the school certainly won’t find an ex-NFL player who is willing to train there at this level, they are only interested in trying to hurt people.”
Kluwe later told CNN that the school fired him because the incident was “getting too much attention.”
Kluwe was arrested at a City Council in Huntington Beach last week as he protested at Huntington Beach’s decision to show a plaque in a public library. The plaque used the words magical, enticing, galvanizing and adventurous and their initials spelled maga.
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Ex-NFL Punter Chris Kluwe during a Huntington Beach City Council meeting. (City of Huntington Beach)
A video from the meeting shows that Kluwe criticizing the Maga movement calls it “a Nazi movement” and says he would participate in civil disobedience. Kluwe later went on the front of the meeting and police handcuted him and led him out.
Days later Kluwe appeared on CNN and he didn’t go back from his attitude.
“I think we’re on the road that Nazi Germany went down under Hitler,” he said. “And I say it as political science and story Major, as someone who has studied history. And the parallels are very, very clear.”
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Oakland Raiders Punter Chris Kluwe Punts The ball during a game against Chicago Bears in Oakland, California, August 23, 2013. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports)
Kluwe, 43, questioned Trump -Administration’s attitude toward Transgender athletes Compete, among other problems in girls and women’s sports.
“This administration is trying to put obedience to the country. This administration tries to push our country into turmoil to reap power for themselves. And I believe regardless of political affiliation, all of us as Americans should be able to agree – no kings, no tyrants, not now, not ever,” Kluwe said.
Kluwe approached the election, and those who voted for President Donald Trump, where he claimed that “Hitler was also elected.”
“There were a lot of very good Germans who thought Hitler would have their best interests in mind. And I think there are a lot of good Americans who believe Trump has their best interests in mind. But I am very convinced that what this administration has shown – has already shown – that Trump does not have their best interests in mind.”
Minnesota Vikings Punter Chris Kluwe goes off the field after a game against Houston Texans at Reliant Stadium. (Thomas Campbell/USA Today Sports)
On Wednesday, Kluwe said he wants other officials to “start engaging in civil disobedience.”
“I want our elected democratic officials to start engaging in civil disobedience,” he told the daily pilot. “People have to be aware that what is going on with this administration is leading us down a real dark path. Right now no one is willing to step up and do it. So if I want to ask them to do it, I also have to be willing to do so.”
Kluwe also told TMZ that he would consider driving to the public office.
Kluwe went off the Minnesota Vikings from 2005-12.
