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

A former NFL punter who just lately 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 trail” Nazi Germany went down beneath Adolf Hitler.

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

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

The previous NFL participant, in remarks on the assembly, “explicitly” tied the MAGA motion to Nazism previous to participating in what he described as a “peaceable civil disobedience.” He was arrested for disrupting a public meeting, police records show.

Kluwe, in his interview with Sidner, reiterated his critique of the Trump administration for “making an attempt to thrust our nation into turmoil to be able to reap energy for themselves.”

“And I feel, no matter political affiliation, all of us as People ought to have the ability to agree: No kings, no tyrants, not now, not ever,” continued Kluwe, who expressed his disgust on the White Home for sharing what appeared to be an AI-generated image of Trump with a crown on his head.

Sidner, who famous that People nonetheless backed Trump in November regardless of his speak of “revenge” and “retribution” on the marketing campaign path, went on to ask Kluwe for his message to the president’s supporters.

“I say to them that Hitler was elected, too, and there have been a number of excellent Germans who believed that Hitler was going to have their finest pursuits in thoughts,” Kluwe replied.

“And I feel there are a number of good People that suppose that Trump has their finest pursuits in thoughts however I’m very assured that what this administration has proven has already proven that Trump doesn’t have their finest pursuits in thoughts.”

He continued, “And I would love for these People to not stay after all of the our bodies have dropped and be full of remorse as a result of they did not do the fitting factor when it was time to do the fitting factor.”