A former Minnesota Viking on Friday vowed to keep protesting his home city's official embrace of Donald Trump and the president's MAGA political movement.

Chris Kluwe, a punter for the Vikings from 2005 to 2012, took the podium at the City Council meeting Tuesday in Huntington Beach, Calif., in opposition to a plaque that was changed to include an ode to Trump. Within minutes, he was arrested.

Added to the design were the words Magical, Alluring, Galvanizing, Adventurous. They construct the same acronym as Trump's signature campaign slogan, Make America Great Again, or MAGA.

The plaque was approved to go on the city's central library in honor of the library system's 50th anniversary.

On "CNN News Central" Friday, Kluwe repeated many of his objections to Trump's actions since Inauguration Day and again warned that "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 added, "I plan to keep on showing up to the City Council meetings unless they ban me. ... I definitely plan on speaking out on the issue because, as an American citizen, I care about my country."

Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe called MAGA a "Nazi movement" during a protest that led to his arrest on Feb. 18.
Video (01:44): Former Vikings player Chris Kluwe arrested after calling MAGA a 'Nazi movement'

On Tuesday before the suburban Los Angeles council, the 43-year-old Kluwe rolled out a long list of what he believes MAGA stands for, including "resegregation and racism … censorship and book bans … firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including canceling a research on veteran suicide."

But the comment that raised the biggest ruckus was that "MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably 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 then left the podium in what he called "the time-honored American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience" and went to the floor. Several police officers moved in, arrested Kluwe and led him out of the council chamber.

Kluwe told the Orange County Register he was released around four hours after his arrest on a misdemeanor count of disturbing an assembly.

In May 2013, the Vikings cut Kluwe, despite his averaging 45 yards per punt with a career-best 39.7 net average.

Skeptics of the move pointed to his heightened off-the-field profile and push to speak out on national TV about societal issues — most notably gay rights and marriage equality. However, the team's front office insisted the decision was strictly about football.

The Vikings in 2014 suspended special teams coordinator Mike Priefer for three games following a six-month investigation into accusations made by Kluwe that Priefer made antigay remarks in a team setting during the 2012 season.