Anti-Trump Protester Goes On Nazi-Themed Rant on CNN After Arrest At City Council Meeting: ‘Hitler Was Elected Too’

Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe doubled down after his arrest at a city council meeting where he ripped into President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement.

Kluwe, who previously played for the Minnesota Vikings, was removed from a Huntington Beach city council meeting this week after he launched into a protest against Trump and the council’s plan to install a MAGA plaque near a public library. The plaque is to honor the library’s 50 years in existence, but the first letter of the words used on it spell out MAGA, which has angered critics.

“MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence. MAGA stands for resegregation and racism. MAGA stands for censorship and book bans. MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing. MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal,” Kluwe said at the city council meeting.

He then stepped forward and said he was engaging in an act of “peaceful civil disobedience” before he was handcuffed and escorted out by officers.

Kluwe joined CNN’s Sara Sidner on Friday and made no apologies for his actions and said he plans on showing up to more city council meetings. Kluwe argued that America is headed down the same path as Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.

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

Check out the exchange below:

CHRIS KLUWE: “I believe we’re on the path that Nazi Germany went down under Hitler. And I say that as a political science and history major, as someone who has studied history and the parallels are very, very clear. This administration is trying to erase trans people. This administration is trying to put obedience over duty to the country. This administration is trying to thrust our country into turmoil in order to reap power for themselves. And I think regardless of political affiliation, all of us as Americans should be able to agree: No kings, no tyrants, not now, not ever. I cannot express how disgusting it was to see an official White House account put out a picture of an American president with a crown on his head. That goes against everything this country was founded upon.”

SARA SIDNER: “That’s also after Donald Trump posted ‘long live the king’ after stopping a policy here in New York. Look, there is this issue. The American public did vote for Donald Trump after all the things he said about being their retribution, about taking revenge, about clearing out the federal government’s so-called deep state, as he puts it, and the mass deportations. What do you say to Americans who say, yeah, we voted for him. We did it in large numbers. He won the popular vote for the first time as well. Knowing all these things.”

KLUWE: “I say to them that Hitler was elected too, and there were a lot of very good Germans who believed that Hitler was going to have their best interests in mind. And I think there are a lot of good Americans that think that Trump has their best interests in mind, but I am very confident that what this administration has shown has already shown that Trump does not have their best interests in mind. And I would like for those Americans to not live after all the bodies have dropped and be filled with regret because they failed to do the right thing when it was time to do the right thing.”

Watch above via CNN.