Your post brings to mind Bush's 'axis of evil' remark, in which he combined the image of the Rome-Berlin Axis Powers of WWII with that of the devil as a way raising public support for his own warmongering ambitions. That man recognises that he is the leader of a broadly religious nation, and he is able and willing to exploit the fact.

It's grotesque that among the people from whom he manages to gain support for his death and destruction campaign are a very large number who claim to have evidence for God.

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler