Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe fired from high school coaching job after calling MAGA a 'Nazi movement'

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Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe said he was fired from his job as a 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 freshman football coach, if you want to know what MAGA does to communities," Kluwe wrote on BlueSky Thursday. "They don’t care about what helps people, because the school is certainly not going to find an ex-NFL player willing to coach there at that level, they only care about trying to hurt people."

Kluwe later told CNN the school fired him because the incident was "getting too much attention."

Kluwe was arrested at a Huntington Beach City Council meeting last week when he was protesting Huntington Beach’s decision to display a plaque at a public library. The plaque used the words magical, alluring, 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 Kluwe criticizing the MAGA movement, calling it "a Nazi movement" and saying he would engage in civil disobedience. Kluwe later went to the front of the meeting, and police handcuffed him and led him out.

Days later, Kluwe made an appearance on CNN, and he did not back down from his stance.

"I believe we’re 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 has studied history. And the parallels are very, very clear." 

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