AP Photo Arianna Huffington compares Donald Trump to Kim Jong Un

Arianna Huffington compared to Donald Trump to Kim Jong Un on Sunday, saying that he, like Jong Un, was both “a buffoon,” and “dangerous.”

Huffington made the comparison of the 2016 Republican front-runner to the North Korean dictator Sunday morning in an interview on CNN’s "Reliable Sources" and used it to launch into a justification for the Huffington Post’s decision, for a time, to feature coverage of the real-estate mogul in its entertainment section.


“We think that he’s a little bit like Kim Jung Un. You know, he’s both a buffoon and he’s dangerous,” she told Brian Stelter.

On July 17, 2015, the Huffington Post announced that they would cover Donald Trump's campaign in the entertainment section of their website. On Dec. 7, 2015, after Trump said that he would like to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., the Huffington Post decided that Trump was a “clear and present danger,” and moved their coverage of him out of their entertainment section and into their politics section.

The Huffington Post editor-in-chief mentioned that The Huffington Post now includes an editor’s note at the end of each of their stories about Trump, which reads: “Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.”

In 2012, Donald Trump tweeted at Huffington.

.@ariannahuff is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man- he made a good decision. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2012



Huffington blamed the media for not taking a critical enough approach to reporting on Donald Trump saying, “The media by not challenging these statements again and again and again are allowing them to become part of the conversation.”

She specifically criticized Bob Woodward’s interview with Donald Trump in the Washington Post on Saturday.

“Not once did [Woodward] ask Donald Trump about the fact that he’s a birther about the fact that he’s advocating for violence at his rallies,” Huffington said.

“We wanted to signal to our reporters and our readers that we cannot cover [Trump], in a conventional way.”

