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Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson: Trump is 'a bully'

Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson: Trump is 'a bully'
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The longtime former governor of Wisconsin has put in his two cents about the way he feels the President of the United States governs the country.

Tommy Thompson, the 15-year Republican governor from 1996-2001, called President Trump "a bully" at a panel discussion at the Wisconsin Institute of Public Policy and Service in Wausau, according to the Wausau Daily Herald.

"He's a bully, and the president should not be a bully," he told people at the event, and that Trump, a fellow Republican, needs to send his Twitter account "out the window" and "take a Dale Carnegie course on public diplomacy,"

Thompson appeared with former UW chancellor Donna Shalala, now running as a Democrat for a Florida congressional spot.

Both Thompson and Shalala served as Health and Human Services secretaries.