Former NFL punter makes ‘Nazi’ comparison to GOP bill

Former NFL punter and California state assembly candidate Chris Kluwe weighed in on the passage of the Children’s Innocence Protection Act in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday.

Kluwe, who was fired from his job as a high school freshman football coach in February after a speech at a city council meeting in which he called MAGA a “Nazi movement,” once again made Nazi comparisons while discussing the bill in a BlueSky post.

“Fuck every single one of these morons. Once again, this is literally what the Nazis did,” Kluwe wrote while sharing a news article about the bill’s passage in the House.

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The bill, sponsored by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., would make it a class C felony to treat minors with gender-affirming care, such as surgeries and puberty blockers, and doctors who provide such treatments would face up to 10 years in prison.

Kluwe gave more details about his publication in a statement to Pak Gazette Digital.

“Trying to criminalize the trans community is literally the first step in the Nazi playbook… and everyone who voted ‘yes’ on this should be fucking ashamed of themselves. If this dastardly culture war were to go down, they would actually want to protect children, they would pass gun control and universal healthcare,” Kluwe said.

There are no historical records available to demonstrate that the Nazi regime actively imprisoned doctors who performed sex changes on children. A prominent German doctor specializing in transgender science, Magnus Hirschfeld, was forced into exile after his citizenship was revoked in 1933. Records suggest that Hirschfeld performed sex-change procedures on adults.

The House vote in favor of the Children’s Innocence Protection Act was 216-211. Three Democrats supported the measure, while four Republicans opposed it.

A similar bill sponsored by Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, prohibits federal Medicaid funding for gender transition procedures for minors. That bill is expected to be voted on in the House on Thursday.

Kluwe became a lightning rod for the Conservative backlash in 2025 after his initial viral town hall comments in February. He was arrested during a meeting when he said he wanted other officials to “start engaging in civil disobedience.”

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Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe protests during the Huntington Beach, California, City Council meeting. (City of Huntington Beach)

Klue spoke out against a plaque with the acronym “MAGA” that will be placed outside the city library to mark its 50th anniversary. The plaque will have the words “Magical,” “Alluring,” “Galvanizing,” and “Adventurous” next to each other. It will also say, “Through hope and change, our nation has built back better in the golden era of making America great again!”

The former NFL player then performed his “peaceful civil disobedience” as he ran toward council members before he was arrested and carried out by police officers. He was later charged with disrupting a meeting.

Days later, Kluwe appeared on CNN and did not back down from his position.

“I think we are on the path that Nazi Germany took under Hitler,” he said. “And I say that as a student of political science and history, as someone who has studied history. And the parallels are very, very clear.”

Kluwe announced he was fired from his first-year coaching job on social media later that month.

“I just got fired from being a first-year football coach, if you want to know what MAGA does in communities,” Kluwe. wrote in BlueSky later in February. “They don’t care about what helps people, because the school certainly isn’t going to find a former NFL player willing to coach there at that level, they only care about trying to hurt people.”

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

In September, Kluwe sparked even more backlash for comments about the murder of Charlie Kirk.

The former gambler sent an expletive-filled message praising Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., for dismissing the idea that Democratic rhetoric led to the assassination.

“Finally. Fight the bull frame that tries to hold Democrats responsible for everything. The GOP is choosing to create this kind of social environment. They could stop it at any moment. They have agency too. They’re not shitty kids (except when, well, you know),” Kluwe wrote.

Kluwe submitted an earlier post suggesting that Kirk created “the kind of society he currently lives in.”

“It is possible to argue that both things are true at the same time: 1) political violence is never an appropriate option in a civilized society 2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, just as his own mouth says,” Kluwe wrote.

Shortly after the shooting occurred, Kluwe sent out a post apparently mocking Kirk for being shot.

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Turning Point Action Founder Charlie Kirk and Chris Kluwe (Getty Images/IMAGN)

In a news article reporting that Kirk had been shot, Kluwe wrote the caption: “ ‘Hahaha, yes! This rules!’ ‘what the fuck— ‘”.

Kluwe punted for the Minnesota Vikings from 2005 to 2012 after going undrafted out of UCLA.