Plus, critics of Kaepernick like President Donald J. Trump (R-New York) give Nike vast amounts of free publicity by attacking the quarter back. Twitter calculates that the Real Donald J. Trump had 61.8 million Twitter followers on 8 July 2019. Therefore, a Trump tweet about Nike and Kaepernick could reach nearly 62 million people. In addition, Kaepernick himself has 2.35 million Twitter followers.