Move over Jimmy Fallon, Thomas Middle School eighth-grader Jack Aiello is coming for your job. In a riveting and hilarious 8-minute graduation speech, Aiello brought down the house with his comedic impersonations of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
After taking the mic, Aiello quickly morphed into Trump, telling the crowded auditorium in Chicago, “And let me just tell you, by the way, that if we have an entire team of Mr. Craigs [a teacher] — who, by the way, is fantastic, I mean he’s terrific — if we have an entire team of Mr. Craigs, we will win, and we will win, and, believe me, we will win!”
While impersonating Clinton, Aiello raised a pointed finger and, in a booming rally-cry voice, thanked “the great hard-working teachers of Thomas Middle School.” He said, “They’ve given us the skills we need to get through sixth grade and seventh grade and eighth grade, and now we’re going to take those skills, and we’re going to apply them to high school!”
He riffed on the school’s lunch menu. While impersonating Sanders, Aiello had the crowd bursting with laughter when he said, “I do have one improvement for them, though. We need to make them [cinnamon buns] free! Why should students have to pay for their own cinnamon rolls? Doesn’t make any sense. What we need is a cinnamon rolls revolution!”
We look forward to his encore speech when he graduates high school.