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Kids today, with their Snapchat and their athleisure-wear and their eerie air of natural, unshakeable confidence! Raised on a steady diet of fresh-faced YouTube stars, it’s no wonder that so many of them have no trouble believing that they, too, could be famous someday—and adjusting quickly when that assumption becomes reality.
Enter Jack Aiello, the eighth grader whose greatest claim to fame a few weeks ago was, you know, being in the eighth grade. Then his dad posted Jack’s middle-school graduation speech—in which the kid tried his hand at impersonating 2016’s presidential candidates, as well as President Obama—to YouTube . . . and soon enough, the clip went massively viral, racking up over 2 million views. (Very impressive, especially considering the video's currently unlisted.)
It was only a matter of time before TV came calling—and this time, Jimmy Fallon managed to beat Ellen DeGeneres to the punch. Wednesday’s Tonight Show welcomed Aiello as “Little Donald,” a Donald Trump clone that the grown-up Trump (Fallon, naturally) has enlisted as his running mate. (Because “the only person good enough to be my vice president is me.”)
If you haven’t seen Aiello’s big break already, you might not be particularly blown away by his imitation—even if he and Adult Trump do have “the same size hands.” As the sketch goes on, though, the teen gets a chance to show off his uncanny takes on Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton—and the cumulative effect is more than the sum of its parts. Good job, Jack. Today, Fallon; tomorrow, the world. Or ninth grade; whichever comes first.
(VANITY FAIR)
