The President of the United States had insufficient information about an event the audience likely knew nothing about. Putin's remarks, by comparison, do not even center on how the Dutch must feel now, given the various instigations created in the Ukraine. Nor is he likely to be making many.
The President of the United States, however, can now collect the nations of the planet into a sense of tragedy and mourning. He can now do that, having gone about business as usual, without overreacting to what may or may not have happened.
"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred!"
(Uraine Rebels not too good, or even too smart, about shooting even poison arrows into air! Malaysian does now lkely know the whereabouts of least this one of their planes(?), among all the atoms of the planet!)