Toluse Olorunnipa

Washington, D.C.

White House Bureau Chief

Education: Stanford University, BA in Sociology; Stanford University, MA in Sociology

Toluse "Tolu" Olorunnipa is the White House Bureau Chief of The Washington Post, and the co-author of "His Name is George Floyd," winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction. He joined The Post in 2019 and has covered the last three presidents. Previously, he spent five years at Bloomberg News, where he reported on politics and policy from Washington and Florida. Olorunnipa has reported from five continents and more than 30 countries as part of the presidential press corps. He started his career at the Miami Herald.
Latest from Toluse Olorunnipa

The voters who will decide 2024 aren't paying attention

Elahe Izadi chats with Aaron Blake and White House bureau chief Toluse Olorunnipa. They tackle Hunter Biden’s conviction, intriguing results from a special election in Ohio, and tuned-out voters.

June 14, 2024

The Campaign Moment: Hunter Biden, Ohio lessons and low-info voters

Elahe Izadi chats with Aaron Blake and White House bureau chief Toluse Olorunnipa. They tackle Hunter Biden’s conviction, intriguing results from a special election in Ohio, and tuned-out voters.

June 14, 2024

How Republicans used misleading videos to attack Biden in a 24-hour period

Such deceptively edited videos, known as “cheap fakes,” have become staples of Republican attacks against President Biden.

June 11, 2024

Biden visits U.S. cemetery in France in latest bid to combat ‘Trump amnesia’

Former president Donald Trump notably bypassed the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in 2018 after reportedly calling troops buried there “suckers” and “losers.”

June 9, 2024
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden pay their tribute to fallen U.S. soldiers of World War I in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in Belleau, France, on Sunday.

Macron hosts Biden for a state visit heavy on pomp, circumstance and war

Biden’s five-day trip to France, which thus far has focused on commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day, now shifts to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

June 8, 2024
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive with French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, for a ceremony Thursday at the Normandy American Cemetery to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

Biden defends democracy in France, drawing implied contrast with Trump

The president has so far avoided naming Trump during his D-Day trip, but he has warned about the dangers posed by authoritarian and isolationist impulses.

June 7, 2024

Biden, world leaders and veterans mark D-Day’s 80th anniversary in France

While the U.S. president’s speech was directed at a global audience, it came against the backdrop of a fierce domestic political battle with Donald Trump.

June 6, 2024

Biden, in France for D-Day anniversary, to stress contrast with Trump

Biden’s D-Day visit will highlight the fight of democracy against authoritarianism, a reference to Donald Trump even if Biden does not explicitly name him.

June 5, 2024
President Biden is welcomed by a French honor guard at Paris's Orly Airport on Wednesday.

Biden expected to announce new asylum restrictions at border

President Biden is expected to announce a plan Tuesday to temporarily shut off access to the U.S.-Mexico border and restrict asylum for immigrants.

June 3, 2024
President Biden greets members of the U.S. Border Patrol at the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Tex., on Feb. 29.

Biden, as president and patriarch, confronts his son’s trial

Hunter Biden’s trial begins Monday on charges of lying on an official form when he bought a gun in 2018.

June 3, 2024
Hunter Biden talks to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol in December.