WASHINGTON D.C. – A groundbreaking report released Monday by the National Institute of Rhetorical Physics (NIRP) has confirmed that former President Donald Trump’s recent State of the Union address did not merely omit climate change, but actively generated a localized, planet-sized vacuum that physically expunged all related data from the broadcast stream and collective consciousness.

“Our initial models suggested a simple oversight, perhaps a misplaced teleprompter slide,” explained Dr. Evelyn Piffle, lead theoretical rhetorician at NIRP. “But our advanced ‘Narrative-Graviton’ detectors registered an unprecedented energy signature – a sort of anti-mention field – emanating directly from the podium. It appears to have created a temporary, non-Euclidean pocket dimension, into which all 12 minutes of scheduled environmental policy discussion were irrevocably pulled.”

Witnesses reported a momentary ripple in the fabric of reality, described by one C-SPAN viewer as “like when you accidentally delete a paragraph, but, you know, for the entire atmosphere.” Analysts at the Department of Semantic Integrity (DSI) are now struggling to reconstruct the missing policy points. “We’ve found traces of the words ‘clean’ and ‘energy’ in the residual rhetorical plasma,” stated DSI Undersecretary Bartholomew 'Barty' Fumble, “but they’re just floating there, devoid of context, like lonely space debris.”

The NIRP report concludes that the vacuum was so potent, it not only erased the topic from the speech but also briefly caused a 0.003% reduction in global atmospheric CO2 levels, only for them to rebound immediately upon the speech’s conclusion, suggesting the effect was purely localized and rhetorical.