There's no way that Stormy Daniels could have lived up to the media hype around her Sunday night '60 Minutes' interview. When her brilliant attorney Michael Avenatti intimated that there would be major revelations around the Trump presidency in the '60 Minutes' segment, a decade-record audience of 22 million people gathered in watch parties. Dark and Stormy cocktails were served.

If you've followed the story closely, there were few new details. This general audience conclusion does not confirm an overall lack of brilliance in Stormy's interview strategy. As an aside, writes New York Magazine, Stormy gave us a lesson in taking the hot air out of Donald Trump.

Daniels took down Donald Trump's boundless ego, if only for one moment. Stormy broke through Trump's delusional self-importance, "literally slapping him into awareness of another person."

[The conversation] started off all about him just talking about himself: And he’s like, ‘Have you seen my new magazine?’ … And so I was like, “Does this normally work for you? … does just … talking about yourself normally work? … Someone should take that magazine and spank you with it. … And I’ll never forget the look on his face … I was like, ‘turn around, drop ‘em.’ … I just gave him a couple swats. and from that moment on, he was a completely different person. He quit talking about himself and he asked me things … it just became … more appropriate.

Making it clear in the privacy of his hotel suite that she was not impressed with Trump's, Stormy Daniels rendered Trump speechless and compliant, as he dropped his pants for a brief spanking with a rolled-up issue of 'Forbes' magazine.

The adult film star called Trump's bluff -- and like so many powerful men with inflated egos -- he knew she had him. Stunned that she would treat him with such seeming nonchalance, Trump dropped his pants like countless powerful men in America who play with BDSM as the supplicant. They crawl across the floor to a mistress prepared to punish them for their sins. In particular, these men come from Wall Street and other financial institutions and they truly do respect women who see through their hubris and bring them back to reality on a dungeon floor -- if only for a moment.

The so-called masters of the universe leave these episodes of temporary obedience revived by the experience of repentance and punishment.

Stormy Daniels has much to teach us about Trump the president and also ourselves as citizens. Instead of seeking all the salacious details that make us complicit in the spectacle of Trump's melodrama, we could take a Stormy Daniels approach that is low on outrage, high on self-discipline in managing Trump's daily hurricane and methodical in its focus on taking this man down.

San Juan Mayor Carmen **Yulín**Cruz hugs a resident of a seniors home after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. (Thais Llorca/European Pressphoto Agency-EFE)

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz made waves on Friday, speaking to media outlets including CNN and MSNBC about the need for more support from the Trump administration in dealing with the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.

Cruz's comments were prompted by those made by Elaine Duke, acting Homeland Security Secretary, on Thursday. In an astonishing lack of empathy for the scene millions of Americans watched all week -- including frequent images of Mayor Cruz walking through sewage-laden waters with her bullhorn calling for her people.

Duke iterated her satisfaction with the recovery efforts in Puerto Rico, explaining that it was “really a good news story in terms of our ability to reach people and the limited number of deaths.”

Mayor Cruz vehemently disagreed, saying, "When you're drinking from a creek, it's not a good news story. When you don't have food for a baby, it's not a good news story. When you have to pull people down from buildings -- I'm sorry, that really upsets me and frustrates me."

Recognizing the error in her words Duke arrived in Puerto Rico on Friday, clarifying her earlier remarks in more humane terms.

The result of Cruz's pleas for more help was America's president Trump going ballistic on Twitter on Saturday morning, from his Bedminster Golf Club.

Early Saturday morning, Trump responded to Cruz’s critical remarks with his own, on Twitter. “The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump,” he said. “Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help."

Trump set off a furor with his accusations that the people of Puerto Rico "want everything done for them." We will cover them in a new article, but to hear Republicans calling San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz a "political hack" on the Sunday morning CNN news is just so distressing.

Related: Who Is Carmen Yulín Cruz, the Puerto Rican Mayor Feuding With Trump? The New York Times