Donald Trump’s apparent inability to calibrate his emotional response to tragedies was evident on Sunday night, as news broke that 10 Navy sailors were missing after an oil tanker collided with a Navy destroyer near Singapore. “That’s too bad, too bad,” Trump said upon his return to Washington from his Bedminster golf club, when asked by a reporter whether he had any comment about the missing crew members. Critics of the administration were not pleased:

It’s hardly the first time Trump has struggled to provide comfort in moments of crisis. Other things that the president has deemed “too bad” include Joe Scarborough’s ratings; The View’s ratings; Seth Meyers’s ratings; and the alleged lies of Megyn Kelly. When a similar Navy disaster occurred in June, Trump posted a brief message offering “thoughts and prayers” to the crew of the U.S.S. Fitzgerald and their families, sent from the same Twitter account on which he mocked Kristen Stewart and Rosie O’Donnell.

Last week, after an alleged white supremacist drove a car into a group of anti-racist protesters, killing a woman, the president responded by blaming “many sides” for the violence; declined to condemn the neo-Nazi groups present; offered his “best regards to all those injured” (“So sad!” he added); and later specifically blamed leftist agitators for inflaming the clash between the two. The woman’s mother said that the White House later tried to reach her during her daughter’s funeral, but that she did not pick up the phone. “And I’m not talking to the president now, I’m sorry,” she told Good Morning America. “After what he said about my child. And it’s not that I saw somebody else’s tweets about him. I saw an actual clip of him at a press conference equating the protesters, like Ms. Heyer, with the KKK and the white supremacists.”

Steve Herman, the Voice of America reporter who asked the question, tweeted shortly afterwards that he had asked Trump about his response about a half hour before the Navy released a statement with the numbers of injured, missing, and dead soldiers. “Unclear whether @POTUS had been informed of missing and injured sailors when he responded. Media wasn't aware of that info at the time,” he said. Herman also dismissed suggestions that Trump had not heard his question due to the helicopter.

Two hours later, Trump tweeted what could be taken as a somber statement:

Breitbart, which recently celebrated the return of Executive Chairman Steve Bannon from the White House, seized on Trump’s awkward response to assail National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, claiming that he had failed to properly brief the president about the incident in time. “This is part of a bigger pattern of growing evidence of disrespect for the president and manipulating the information that is given to him similar to the decision with Afghanistan,” a source told Breitbart’s Matt Boyle, adding that McMaster and Chief of Staff John Kelly, the man behind Bannon’s firing, were to blame.

Correction: The original headline of this piece asserted that the president gave a two-word response. In fact, it was a three-word response, including “that’s.” We apologize for the error.