Over the weekend, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher where he labeled the election of Donald Trump as POTUS a "moral 9/11."

Friedman's comment came after MTV News correspondent Ana Marie Cox said that people feel "legitimately frightened" about a Trump presidency, saying their worries just dramatically shot up.  

"The crisis hotline for trans people saw an increase of like 400 times on Tuesday night," Cox said. "There are people who feel, not just people of color, lots of vulnerable communities who are just scared."

That's when Thomas Friedman dropped his nugget of human wisdom, sharing with all of HBO the level of sophistication required to become an NYT columnist.

Study hard, kids.  

There's a potential that there's a student out there, there's a post-doc, a person of color, Chinese, Asian, Indian, and they're saying now do I want to study in America? Do I want to work in America? And you'll see the impact of that in ten years. You won't see it now. The next Sergey Brin won't come here. The next great inventor won't come here 

This is a moral 9/11. Only 9/11 was done from us on the outside and we did this to ourselves.

The audience erupted into thunderous applause.  

On the real 9/11 in 2011, close to 3,000 Americans lost their lives to the hands of Islamic terrorists. On the day Donald Trump got elected, thousands of whiny brats took to the streets in protest over Trump's proposed ban on immigrants likely to commit another 9/11. Not a "moral 9/11," but an embarrassing flunk in Logic 101.