If there has ever been a time in the life of the President during which he made the decision to accept Christ as his Savior, and at that moment of decision received the Holy Spirit, and studied Scripture under the direction of the Holy Spirit, there is no way that he could, in good conscience, publically declare that the Word of God is not literally true.
As a Christian, I have very good understanding of the statement I made, and I would make the same statement again.
Maybe the President needs to pray for forgiveness for saying what he did and putting doubt about Christ into the minds of how many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people who heard or read what he said. Perhaps the president needs to pray for better understanding of Scripture so that he would know beyond any question that the Word of God is absolute truth and that no Christian can compromise on that fact.
Have you ever been interviewed for an article or video news piece? Were you edited or quoted? I doubt that the President’s statements meant the same thing that you read.
Nevertheless, the President pointed more people to the Gospel than you or I will ever reach. Even Peter and John did not understand everything the day Christ rose from the dead - they didn’t believe the women who told them He’d risen, but they knew that Jesus was the Son of God.
By the way, people like Sam Harris love to point out the discrepancies like those narratives about Jesus in Matthew 28, Mark 16, John 20 and Luke 24. Was it a woman or women, who either did or did not touch him, did John and Peter run to the tomb before Mary Magdalene saw Jesus and/or was it just John or Peter and John who ran to the tomb and took up the cloths and then believed, etc.