'Nother thought:
You might not like Trump himself or how he presents what he says (or what it is that he says) but . . .President Trump would have been right out front addressing policy questions himself and handing off detail questions to leadership figures from the departments of State and Defense.
Trump would not have gone off to hide at Camp David in the Maryland woods.
This is like the Benghazi debacle where both Obama and Clinton were out of pocket till it was all over. Then blamed it all on someone else or denied that it even mattered.