'He barely talked about it': Experts shocked that Trump brushed off major election issue

CNN pundits were shocked to discover how little of President Donald Trump's address to Congress included the issues most important to the American people: inflation and the economy.

Inside Politics' Dana Bash produced a bubble graph to illustrate the amount of time Trump spoke on the major issues. The result showed he spoke the longest — 9 minutes 49 seconds — about "immigrants and crime," and the very least — just 35 seconds — on the economy.

"Those small bubbles up on the top, those green bubbles? That's the economy and inflation! Those are the reason that Donald Trump was brought back to the dance," Bash exclaimed. "And he barely talked about them."

Political Director David Chalian said he was looking to see "what percentage of the speech would be focused solely on prices and the economy, and what people are feeling, given that that was issue number one."

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"I do think, clearly, he's going to have to spend more time on that, or he is going to — the risk, the political risk you're talking about — that is going to be realized in some way, if not for Donald Trump — who, I think we see somebody that is unburdened by the fact that he doesn't have to run for re-election — certainly for his party," Chalian said.

"I just want to know, Dana, though — the tariffs that we're talking about now it is, like, multiples of what he did in the first terms. So, this is a dramatic increase in this, which means its impact on the economy, if these experts are right, could also be dramatically done ten-fold."

Trump's lack of attention on the economy during his speech is even more confounding when considering a Marist University/NPR poll released on the eve of his address.

It found that "57% of Americans believe grocery prices will increase over the next six months, while only 17% believe they will decrease. In the same poll, 54% of Americans said the country is moving in the wrong direction, and more Americans, by a 46%-42% margin, believe Trump's direction on the economy is for the worse than for the better."

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