Our accidental President continues to behave badly.

In an earlier column, we suggested evaluating his behavior on two scales: things said or done that are dangerous, and things said or done that are just petulant, embarrassing to see in any adult, much less the President of what is arguably the most powerful country in human history.

June has not been a good month.

On June 1st Mr. Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Accords, a unique agreement signed by all but two nations in the world, one of whom (Nicaragua) refused to sign because it felt the agreement didn't go far enough. The other was Syria.

The President's formal, June 1, Rose Garden speech, to announce and ostensibly articulate the reasoning behind his "decision" was sadly all too typical. (You may read it for yourself at http://bit.ly/2sS1UsR)

It began with a four-hundred word or so exercise in self-deception and prevarication about the Trump administration's "accomplishments" to date.

The President then proceeded in super-market-tabloid style, to demonstrate that he really had no idea what the agreement was about, what it "required," or how it was to be "enforced."

At a time when he had already sowed and fertilized seeds of doubt about our trustworthiness among our closest allies, he proceeded to both confirm their doubts and demonstrate his inability to serve as the leader of the democracies once celebrated as "the free world."

A combination of profound ignorance and personal petulance led him to ignore wiser heads, do completely unnecessary harm, abdicate hard-won American leadership in the setting of international standards of behavior in the field, while enhancing the roles of eager-to-embarrass-us competitors, China not least among them.

Worse, he empowered, once more, those profoundly ignorant of science and economics, while giving false hope to those who, like coal miners, believed out of desperation the false promises of a man with a long history as a huckster.

Sadly, withdrawal from the Paris Agreement fiasco was, and remains, the least of his problems.

His approval rating is at an all-time low . . . Lower than those recorded this early for any President of the modern (read survey-prone) era.

He faces legal problems, as do inordinate numbers, already, of his appointees, friends, and family.

Those who fear his personal petulance and demonstrable incompetence are confirmed in their fears.

The same is true for those who fear the worst of those he attracts. They are joined in their fear and disgust by the many of the most conservative of their fellow citizens, the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention not least among them.

Many of the minority of Americans who voted for him held their noses while casting ballots for President Trump.

Ideally, the longer he serves, the more he tweets, and the more legal and ethical scandals are exposed, the larger will be the number of good conservatives who abandon him.

Let us hope that they do so before a man who is already a national embarrassment does even more to put his fellow citizens . . . And the world. . . in danger.