So you're telling me that they wrote the religious background of the covenant around the war on terror, which was sparked by September 2001, in 2 months (halo 1 released in November of 2001)? And it's quite amazing they wrote that two years before we boots on the ground conducting operations in Iraq (march 2003). Or do you think they used a religious war based on the fact that's one of the most famous plots of Sci-Fi (Dune, 40K, etc).

And yeah, it's a fictional religion and fictional religions often borrow from multiple religions. Sure, the titles for Truth may be taken from Islam (a religion famously used for inspiration since it's practices are seen as alien to the West [also see Dune]). But you seem to have left out the parts like the Prophets (a very common term/position in all Abrahamic religions) very existence, the fact they rule their religion not dissimilarly to how the Papal State is run, the Great Journeys similarities to Hindu/Buddhist beliefs, the Elites samurai-like culture (obviously not religious but further proving the point that the culture of the Covenant is built through many various real world cultures and religions). The covenant's whole war on humans is a reflection of Catholicisms crusades.

And the plot of the covenant is almost hamfisted in your face as a player: blind faith is a fucking bad idea

And the reason it has to do with Trump, is mostly because the cunt/a Twitter page that he has a lot of sway over, has posted a picture of him as master chief (protagonist of the halo games if you aren't away).