8th grader spoofs 2016 candidates at graduation

An eighth grader’s amazingly accurate impersonation of the 2016 presidential candidates at his graduation has received a great deal of attention in the press and on social media.

No candidate emerges unscathed from 14-year-old Jack Aiello’s 8-minute act, as he lampoons Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders. President Barack Obama also gets a hilarious nod.

Aiello, of Thomas Middle School, outside Chicago, says he “decided that since we’re in the middle of an election year, that I would do my graduation speech in the style of some of the 2016 presidential candidates.”

He then goes on to thank the school in the spirit — and voices — of the leading politicians.

Perhaps the best of the bunch are Aiello’s Trump, who thanks the school which “quite frankly, has been fantastic” and expresses appreciation for the “terrific” teachers; and Sanders, who praises “the lunches, they are delicious,” though he adds that “we need to make them free” and calls for “a cinnamon role revolution!”