About 75 days in, and Trump has done nothing about Syria except prop him up (Tillerson: “longer-term status of President Assad will be decided by the Syrian people." Haley: “Our priority is no longer to sit and focus on getting Assad out.”), then blame, not Assad, but Russia, Iran, and Obama.
No wonder Spicehead read the statement during an off-camera press briefing. The culpability is numbingly obvious to reporters and didn’t want to implicate Trump on national TV.