The Huffington Post is reversing an earlier decision to only cover Donald Trump’s presidential campaign as entertainment news, saying “we are no longer entertained” following the front-runner’s call to bar Muslims from entering the U.S.

Arianna Huffington, the paper’s founder, penned “A Note on Trump” Monday, after the billionaire called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

“On the heels of Trump’s proposed change for America, we will be changing how we cover him at The Huffington Post,” Ms. Huffington wrote. “Back in July, we announced our decision to put our coverage of Trump’s presidential campaign in our Entertainment section instead of our Politics section. … Since then Trump’s campaign has certainly lived up to that billing. But as today’s vicious pronouncement makes abundantly clear, it’s also morphed into something else: an ugly and dangerous force in American politics.”

She went on to say that they will no longer be covering Mr. Trump’s campaign in Entertainment, but will cover it “as if it were a normal campaign.”

“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,” she wrote. “We believe that the way we cover the campaign should reflect this shift. And part of that involves never failing to remind our audience who Trump is and what his campaign really represents.

“So if Trump’s words and actions are racist, we’ll call them racist. If they’re sexist, we’ll call them sexist. We won’t shrink from the truth or be distracted by the showmanship,” Ms. Huffington wrote. “So we’ll not only be covering the ways Trump’s campaign is unique in recent American politics, but also the disastrous impact it continues to have on his fellow candidates — and the national conversation.”

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