Huffington Post reverses policy of covering Trump under ‘Entertainment'

The Huffington Post is reversing its much-discussed policy of relegating coverage of GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump to its entertainment vertical. In a post on the site, president and editor in chief Arianna Huffington said that the decision is a response to Trump’s call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” ”Now that Trump, aided by the media, has doubled down on the cruelty and know-nothingness that defined his campaign's early days, the 'can you believe he said that?' novelty has curdled and congealed into something repellent and threatening -- laying bare a disturbing aspect of American politics,” Huffington wrote in the post -- published on the site’s Politics vertical. The reversal comes about five months after the publication, calling Trump’s campaign “a sideshow,” announced Trump’s banishment from the Politics vertical.