The president's eldest daughter, now one of his top advisers, declared the strike on civilians in Syria 'atrocious' on Wednesday morning, getting in front of her father, who has yet to personally condemn the chemical weapons attack.

Donald Trump's spokesman told reporters Tuesday during an off-camera briefing that the onslaught that killed more than 70 people, and as many as 20 children, was 'reprehensible and cannot be ignored by the civilized world.'

The Twitter-loving leader of the nation did not address the crises in remarks at a legislative conference or on his social media streams, even as he praised the 'tremendous spirit & optimism' he's seen in the US since his election.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ducked reporters' questions about the blitz Tuesday, issuing a statement later, instead, that called for an end to the 'unabashed barbarism.'

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The president's eldest daughter, now one of his top advisers, declared the strike on innocents in Syria 'atrocious' on Wednesday morning

In sending the tweet, Ivanka Trump got in front of her father, who has yet to personally condemn the chemical weapons attack

At least 11 of the more than 70 people who died in the chemical attack were children. Two are seen receiving treatment on Tuesday at a hospital

For a second day, Ivanka beat her father to social media platforms Wednesday, tweeting about the crisis in Syria in the absence of visible condolences from the president.

'Heartbroken and outraged by the images coming out of Syria following the atrocious chemical attack yesterday,' Ivanka tweeted at a quarter past 7 local time.

The day before she greeted the nation with a message in support of wage equality, something that neither her father nor the White House backed up with statements of their own on Tuesday, nationally celebrated as Equal Pay Day.

President Trump routinely begins his mornings with dispatches of his own but forwent the practice both days as he tended to other business.

He is likely to make remarks on the sarin gas attack in Syria this afternoon during a joint news conference with King Abdullah II of Jordan.

A senior administration official said the president and the Jordanian king would be discussing the conflict during the White House visit that includes an Oval Office chat, expanded bilateral meeting and a working lunch.

The White House said Tuesday that President Trump is not responsible for the chemical weapons attack in Syria, his predecessor is, despite a recent change in posture toward the country's vicious dictator.

Trump's administration said last week that it was no longer a 'priority' of the United States to remove Bashar al-Assad from power.

Then came Tuesday's sarin gas attack.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer pointed the finger at Assad in a statement he delivered at a lunchtime question and answer session with press that was restricted from broadcast. He also castigated Barack Obama.

'These heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of the past administration’s weakness and irresolution,' he said. 'President Obama said in 2012 that he would establish a "red line" against the use of chemical weapons and then did nothing.'

Asked why Trump was taking a 'potshot' at the former president instead of taking ownership of the situation, Spicer told a journalist in the room, 'What's the point of red lines? America's credibility was at stake, and I think the President wants to point out that there was a red line and they did cross it.

'We did have alternatives to regime change, and they weren’t taken,' the Trump spokesman said.

The Twitter-loving leader of the nation did not address the crises in remarks at a legislative conference or on his social media streams, even as he praised the 'tremendous spirit & optimism' he's seen in the US since his election

A Syrian child receives treatment following the attack that the US government has said was carried out by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad

HOW PRESIDENT ASSAD HAS USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS ON HIS OWN PEOPLE Syria has a long history with chemical weapons dating back more than 40 years. Syria first developed chemical weapons in the 1970s, when it was given a small number of chemicals and delivery systems by Egypt before the start of the Arab-Israeli war in 1973. Damascus started acquiring materials to produce its own chemical weapons in the 1980s, reportedly with the help of the Soviet Union, according to the BBC. By 2011, Syria was still 'dependent on foreign sources of key elements' of its chemical weapons, the US director of national intelligence reported. In 2013, the country saw its worst sarin attack in Syria's civil war. In the wake of the 2013 attack, President Bashar Assad agreed to a Russia-sponsored deal to destroy his chemical arsenal and joined the Chemical Weapons Convention. The agreement came after hundreds of people - up to 1,429 according to a US intelligence report - were killed in chemical weapons strikes allegedly carried out by Syrian troops east and southwest of Damascus. His government declared a 1,300-ton stockpile of chemical weapons and so-called precursor chemicals that can be used to make weapons amid international outrage at a nerve gas attack on the outskirts of Damascus. Those weapons have been destroyed, but member states of the OPCW have repeatedly questioned whether Assad declared everything in 2013. The widely available chemical chlorine was not covered in the 2013 declaration and activists say they have documented dozens of cases of chlorine gas attacks since then. The Syrian government has consistently denied using chemical weapons and chlorine gas, accusing the rebels of deploying it in the war instead. But there have been repeated allegations of chemical weapons use by the government since then, with a UN-led investigation pointing the finger at the regime for at least three chlorine attacks in 2014 and 2015. The government denies using chemical weapons and has accused rebels of using banned weapons. Advertisement

Spicer at another point said the White House does not see a correlation between its posture toward Assad and the chemical attack.

'I don't,' he stated. 'I'm not going to get into it, but I think the President is extremely alarmed at these revelations. He continues to meet with his national security team, and I think there will be further discussions around the globe with our allies as far as the appropriate action.'

Trump had promised during his campaign for president that he would establish a safe zone in Syria for nationals seeking to escape the brutality from extremists.

Syria's military, with the backing from Russia and Iran, has lay waste to areas controlled by rebel forces, as well. Tuesday's chemical weapons attack is just the latest in a series of assaults that the Syrian government has been accused on carrying out on its own people.

A secure zone has yet to be set up, though Trump has talked about it since taking office as an alternative to resettling Syrian refugees in America.

Trump's administration last week said it would apply pressure to Assad to make changes inside his country.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced that the United States was not 'going to sit there and focus on getting [Assad] out.'

Haley, who just took the reigns of the UN Security Council, said Monday that the approach does not mean the US believes Assad should stay.

Assad is a 'war criminal' and 'what he’s done to his people is nothing more than disgusting,' she said.

Spicer said Tuesday the administration's new tact reflects the current 'political reality.'

He would not say how the United States plans to respond to Assad's latest assault on the Syrian people, contending that he'd 'rather not get ahead' of the national security team.

But he said the chemical weapons attack 'is not something that any civilized nation should sit back and accept or tolerate.'

Trump's secretary of state took hours on Tuesday to issue a statement decrying the tragedy, having ignored reporters asking him for comment shortly after Spicer's off-camera briefing.

When he finally sent something out, Rex Tillerson said, 'The United States strongly condemns the chemical weapons attack in Idlib province, the third allegation of the use of such weapons in the past month alone.'

'While we continue to monitor the terrible situation, it is clear that this is how Bashar al-Assad operates: with brutal, unabashed barbarism. Those who defend and support him, including Russia and Iran, should have no illusions about Assad or his intentions.

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'Anyone who uses chemical weapons to attack his own people shows a fundamental disregard for human decency and must be held accountable.'

The 'horrific conflict' requires a 'genuine ceasefire' agreement between the government and rebel forces.

'We call upon Russia and Iran, yet again, to exercise their influence over the Syrian regime and to guarantee that this sort of horrific attack never happens again,' the State Department official said. 'As the self-proclaimed guarantors to the ceasefire negotiated in Astana, Russia and Iran also bear great moral responsibility for these deaths.'

The State Department followed up on his comments by announcing Wednesday morning that it was providing an additional $566 million in humanitarian assistance to the conflict, for a sum total of $6.5 billion since 2012.

The funds pay for food assistance, shelter, drinking water, medical, protection and other relief efforts.