What was the achievement of attacking the Syrian base????

What did Trump’s bombardment of the Syrian military base achieve? What effect did it have? Assad was flying jet fighters from the same base the next day, continuing with bombarding his own people and killing hundreds more. What did Trump achieve with this bombardment?  Apparently and definitely nothing as a military victory against Bashar, or for people of Syria. Bashar is still bombarding Syrians with pure impunity and up till now has massacred more than 400,000 of his own people. It was not a warning to Russia also because Putin is still helping Bashar.

It had two aims:

One is a knee-jerk response by an impulsive president who does not spend even a few seconds on considering the outcome of his actions. He had watched clips of Syrian children after the chemical attack and he was angry and when you are president, instead of swearing and punching the wall, you can actually bombard the bastard, no matter how ineffective and undiplomatic it is.

The other main and major goal that was achieved was distracting US media and people from the major story, his collaboration with Putin, his financial corruption, his nepotism and his complete lack of suitability for the job position he was filling. And he achieved that. The fickle media lost sight of the major concerns of American people and started going on about a minor attack for hours and days.