Donald Trump. Joe Raedle/Getty Images On every article about Donald Trump, The Huffington Post used to put an editor's note at the end calling him a racist, misogynist, xenophobic liar.

Not anymore.

With Trump now the president-elect, that note will be removed. Politico's Hadas Gold first reported the change.

Ryan Grim, the head of The Huffington Post's Washington bureau, sent a staff memo on Tuesday evening saying the decision was meant to give Trump a fresh start.

"The thinking is that (assuming he wins) that he's now president and we're going to start with a clean slate," Grim wrote, according to Politico. "If he governs in a racist, misogynistic way, we reserve the right to add it back on. This would be giving respect to the office of the presidency which Trump and his backers never did."

This was the old note:

"Editor's note: 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."

During an election in which Trump continually accused the media of being rigged against him, The Huffington Post was among his harshest critics.

The left-leaning publisher made the decision in July 2015 to cover Trump's campaign in its entertainment section instead of its politics one. "Our reason is simple," Grim and Danny Shea wrote at the time. "Trump's campaign is a sideshow."

The Huffington Post rolled back that policy in December.

Founder Arianna Huffington wrote in December that while Trump's campaign had "certainly lived up to that billing" as a sideshow, it had "also morphed into something else: an ugly and dangerous force in American politics." The Huffington Post then added in the editor's note.

Now, with a Trump presidency imminent, The Huffington Post is again changing course.

The Huffington Post provided the following statement to Politico:

"This note was added to stories about presidential candidate Donald Trump during the election cycle. Now that the election is over, we will no longer be adding the note to future stories, as he is no longer a presidential candidate."