President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday offered a laundry list of priorities and policy plans for his administration on issues ranging from immigration to North Korea, but it left out three major issues on the minds of Americans from coast to coast at this moment in time.

The president failed to mention the #metoo and #timesup movements that have given voice and spotlight to the victims of sexual misconduct in recent months. He also didn’t refer to climate change or the ever-increasing national debt. Here’s a more detailed breakdown of the omissions below.

1. #Metoo

The #Metoo movement is a label for women across the country who have used the hashtag to raise awareness about widespread sexual misconduct and harassment they have faced. The movement has steadily gained momentum since October when allegations were first reported about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. More and more women and men have come forward to tell their stories of abuse since then, including those who accused Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore and former Sen. Al Franken, D-Minnesota.

Trump faces his own allegations of sexual misconduct, which may have been why he completely avoided the subject despite women in filmmaking, music and other industries putting the issue in the national spotlight again in recent weeks at the Golden Globe and — just this past Sunday — Grammy awards with the #TimesUp movement.

Many women in Congress chose to wear black and their own #TimesUp pins to the State of the Union address, putting the issue right in front of the president, but he didn’t mention either movement. The slight seemed even more glaring because reform efforts for how to deal with sexual harassment are underway in Congress.

U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other House Democrats wear black as they participate in a photo-op at the U.S. Capitol prior to President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address January 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images

2. Climate change

Climate change is a subject that affects every corner of the union, but it wasn’t mentioned by Trump on Tuesday. The president’s most high-profile action on climate change in his first year was pulling out of the Paris climate agreement.

At the time, he said he wanted to negotiate a better deal for the U.S, but he hasn’t even as a majority of Americans say they believe global climate change contributed to the severity of recent hurricanes that battered Florida and Texas, according to a September poll from The Washington Post and ABC News. He did mention the hurricanes in his speech, but he didn’t elaborate.

3. National debt

The national debt is more than $20 trillion, but deficit reduction was not a key issue for Trump’s first State of the Union address.

On the same day that his Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was discussing the national debt with Congress, Trump left the subject alone.

“The president is very much concerned about the rate of increase of the debt and particularly the rate that it grew over the last eight years,” Mnuchin said during a Senate Banking Committee hearing. “Over time we need to figure out where we can have government savings to deal with the deficit.”

The government faces an imminent shutdown (again) in the first part of February thanks to party squabbling over the debt ceiling, so why didn’t Trump say something about it?

That Trump failed to mention issues of sexual misconduct, climate change or the debt ceiling didn’t go unnoticed. Here are some of the people who pointed it out on social media, two tweets on each subject.

Email: abby.hamblin@sduniontribune.com

Twitter: @abbyhamblin

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