Donald Trump, the NFL talk-show-caller-in-chief, bragged on Monday that fear of his presidential Twitter typing was helping to keep Colin Kaepernick unemployed, which pushed this one further out through the looking glass than any sports issue of our time.
Doesn’t make it the most important sports issue. Doesn’t mean Trump actually knows or controls anything significant about this perpetual controversy and the ideas that Kaepernick espoused during his national-anthem protest.
Doesn’t necessarily mean a large number of NFL owners are scared to sign Kaepernick because Trump might Tweet mean things about them–although this prospect was raised by Mike Freeman’s breakthrough piece in Bleacher Report on the backlash against Kaepernick for his anthem protest and the NFL’s fear of Trump .