The President did not say that God lies. Tell me, how literal is the book of Revelation? Or much of Isaiah and Daniel?
Galations 5. Romans 13 and 14.
Revelation and Daniel are prophetic books, the details of which are being fulfilled in our time. Isaiah is the book written by God through the prophet Isaiah that primarily deals with ancient Israel, with some chapters devoted to the birth of Jesus, the Messiah, which was fulfilled hundreds of years later and detailed in the book of Matthew.
The prophetic books literally foretell events which will happen and a lot of which are happening here and now.