On Friday, US senior military officials disclosed declassified intelligence information to lay out reasoning behind the attack on the Syrian military airfield in Ash Sha'irat near Homs late Thursday.

"Trump appears to have been easily manipulated into this response," Kwiatkowski said on Friday. "It could have not been more effective if President Trump had been psychologically profiled and specifically manipulated into this 'surprise' decision."

Trump's instinctive response to the first pictures of the use of chemical weapons "would have been easily predictable from a psychological analysis," Kwiatkowski stated.

Kwiatkowski pointed out that parts of US foreign policy, defense and intelligence community and their supporters in the media had been very concerned over Trump's long-expressed "America First" foreign policy approach.