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Donald Trump gets burned by 13-year-old girl on America's Got Talent

It takes the honesty of a child to call out Trump's presidential run as a joke

Adam Withnall
Thursday 16 June 2016 08:14 BST
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shields his eyes as he speaks during a rally at the Fox Theater, Wednesday, June 15, 2016, in Atlanta
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shields his eyes as he speaks during a rally at the Fox Theater, Wednesday, June 15, 2016, in Atlanta (AP)

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Donald Trump's transformation from reality TV star to presumptive Republican presidential candidate has struck many commentators as somewhat ridiculous.

Yet it has taken the honesty of a 13-year-old girl to call it out as a full-blown joke.

Lori Mae Hernandez appeared on America's Got Talent this week with a stand up comedy routine about how she was underqualified to be a babysitter.

And after a nervous start in which she explained how she got into comedy to make her ill father laugh, she soon won over the audience.

She said: "My only qualification to be a babysitter is that I used to be a baby. That's crazy. That’s like saying, ‘Hey, you’re sick a lot, you want to be my doctor?'”

It was her last line, though, which got the biggest laugh - and at the expense of a man who, in just a few months' time, could be the most powerful in the world.

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