A former NFL punter was dragged out of a city council meeting in California by police while claiming that supporting President Donald Trump is “explicitly a Nazi movement.”
Former Minnesota Viking and UCLA Bruin Chris Kluwe flipped out about the president during Tuesday’s Huntington Beach city council meeting.
Kluwe was protesting a MAGA plaque installed near the local library.
“I’m gonna take my time to say what MAGA has stood for these past three weeks,” Kluwe said.
The former football player continued, “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.”
Wild: Former #Vikings punter Chris Kluwe calling President Donald Trumps MAGA slogan a “Nazi movement” and being arrested and carried out of a city council meeting by police.
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“MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including canceling research on veteran suicide,” Kluwe continued. “MAGA stands for cutting funds for education, including for disabled children. MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakenly anti-democracy, and most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement.”
“You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is,” he said before announcing, “I will now engage in the time-honored American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience.”
Kluwe’s protest did not last long, as he was approached by police and handcuffed.
Kluwe has been charged with disrupting an assembly.
