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.

United States Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California delivered a fiery speech at the Human Rights Campaign's annual Los Angeles Dinner Saturday night. Never at a loss for words, Rep. Waters ripped into Donald Trump, calling him “one of the most dishonorable, deceitful, and despicable people ever to hold public office.”

Waters ticked off a list of Trump transgressions against the LGBTQ community: a ban on transgender service members in the military, proposed budget cuts to programs supporting people living with HIV, and a rather terrifying proposition that Title VII does not include the LGBTQ community. “Well, what do I think about all of this?” she said to roaring applause as she removed her glasses and made a face that left no doubt how she felt about Trump's policies.

With Rep. Waters holding court on the West Coast, President Donald Trump was busy mocking her at his "am I just great or what speech" speech in Pennsylvania Saturday night.

Once again, Trump mocked Waters, saying she had a "very low IQ". Waters has become the source of Trump's incessant ridicule. In early March, Trump proposed at the annual Gridiron Club dinner that the Congresswoman take an IQ test.

"Did you ever see her? Did you ever see her? 'We will impeach him. We will impeach the president,'" Trump said before telling the crowd he hadn't done anything wrong. His assertion that Waters believes he should be impeached is accurate.

"Everybody knows that I'm on the front lines not talking about harming anybody but I am talking about impeachment," Waters told CNN in an October 2017 interview. "I don't think this President should be representing our country ... he creates controversy, he cannot get along with our members of Congress, and I'm going to continue my efforts to impeach him."

"'It doesn't matter, we will impeach him.' She's a low IQ individual," Trump said. "You can't help it."