Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Joe.

In case it was lost following the dramatic election cycle, President Joe Biden’s last full month of office has served as a grim reminder he was one of the worst leaders this country has had in modern history.

His approval rating is a dismal 34%, his worst since taking office.

Last week, Biden announced he was commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment.

That includes a man from Michigan who in 1997 killed a 19-year-old woman who had accused him of rape. Weighted down by cinder blocks with duct tape on her face, she was found by fishermen at the bottom of Oxford Lake, part of a national forest, after disappearing days before the man’s trial was set to begin.

The woman had an 18-month-old daughter, Shannon, who also disappeared and was never found.

Earlier this month Biden also commuted the prison sentences of approximately 1,500 federal inmates, part of the “largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history,” as the Biden administration bragged.

That includes the remaining time of a former Pennsylvania judge who carried out a “kids-for-cash” scandal in which he sent kids to a private prison he helped build in exchange for kickbacks and dozens of individuals whose cases were initially processed in federal courts in Michigan. Many of those individuals had been involved with drug rings, health care fraud and other embezzlement schemes.

But Biden began December with perhaps the biggest whopper lie of his presidency — that he would not pardon his son, Hunter Biden, for federal tax and gun convictions.

The president said unequivocally before and after the 2024 election that he would not do so, or commute his sentence.

Yet on Dec. 1, Biden gave validity to the seeping notion there is a two-tier system of justice in the country by granting Hunter Biden a “full and unconditional pardon,” covering the 10-year tenure of his involvement with overseas companies, from which he is suspected to have heavily profited.

The move destroyed what dignity was left of the Biden presidency.

And underneath Biden’s entire term is the question: who was really running the government?

A Dec. 19 report by the Wall Street Journal detailed disturbingly how Biden’s aides, family and advisors managed his obvious limitations during his entire time in office — and then put him up to run for a second term.

Interactions with senior Democratic lawmakers ground to a halt, as did meetings with important secretaries, such as Defense’s Lloyd Austin and Treasury’s Janet Yellen. Legislative leaders couldn’t talk to the president, including before the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

“Senior advisers were often put into roles that some administration officials and lawmakers thought Biden should occupy,” the report says.

It all makes perfect sense if you think back to the June debate between Donald Trump and Biden, when his mental decline was laid bare to the entire globe.

But it raises questions about his entire tenure.

The Biden presidency will go down as one shrouded in dishonesty, corruption and instability — a time when American leadership failed the world and our leader failed us.

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