Trump and the UN Human Rights Council

As almost all of you will no doubt know, Trump (and his administration) is pulling out of the Human Rights Council. Timing is everything, oftentimes, and the timing of this is particularly interesting. The administration has come under immense pressure in terms of the fallout to the 

Can we connect these dots? Is this just a manner of getting off the hook? The executive order, by all accounts, doesn't really do the job.