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.

Trump Summons TV Figures for Private Meeting, and Lets Them Have It The New York Times

According to a transition pool report, the media personalities who got a finger-pointing lecture at Trump Tower today included: NBC News President Deborah Turness; MSNBC President Phil Griffin; CNN President Jeff Zucker and network anchor Wolf Blitzer; Fox News Co-Presidents Bill Shine and Jack Abernethy and Executive Vice Presidents Jay Wallace and Suzanne Scott; and CBS News anchors John Dickerson and Charlie Rose.

About 25 executives and anchors heard President-elect Trump that he wants a "cordial" and "productive" relationship with the media, but he started the meeting with typical Trump commentary on "dishonest media" and specifically singled out CNN and NBC News as "the worst".

Trump also complained that NBC News President Deborah Turness that the network refused to fun a nice picture of him, suggesting that they preferred to showcase his double chin.

Pelosi predicts fierce Trump backlash Politico

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says she's up for another big fight -- with Trump.

In an interview with POLITICO on Monday, the California Democrat who is facing a long-shot leadership challenge from Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, insisted her tenacity, experience and ability to count votes correctly without fail means she’s the only one who can bring Democrats back to the House majority. Pelosi recalled the 2006 election when Republicans were dreaming of a "permanent majority". In the 2008 presidential election, Democrats trounced them, vaulting Pelosi into the speaker's chair.

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Did Celebrity Endorsements Contribute to Hillary Clinton's Presidential Upset? Vanity Fair

The problem is that when everyone from Broadway stars to pop stars to Pretty Little Liars stars do speak out, the noise is deafening—and alienating to voters who don’t want to hear what “Hollywood elites,” whose self-interests differ from their own, think. “In this media environment, I don’t think there’s any one news source or any one influencer or one celebrity that can sway a whole broad swath of people’s points of view,” Ronnie Cho, head of public affairs at MTV and former associate director of public engagement for the White House under Obama said. “A healthy skepticism young people have for people telling them what to do and telling them how to think that makes it harder for even the most followed person on Twitter, like Katy Perry, to turn out people to vote.”