Philip Rucker
Philip Rucker is an American reporter and author. He is currently the White House Bureau Chief at "The Washington Post", where he has been working since 2005. Early life and education. Rucker is a 2002 graduate of the St. Andrew's School in Savannah, Georgia, where he was valedictorian. In 2017, the school gave him its Distinguished Alumni Award. Rucker received a history degree from Yale University in 2006, where he worked for the "Yale Daily News" as a reporter and editor. Career. He has worked at the "Post" since 2005. Initially covering a variety of beats, he  became a White House correspondent and was promoted to White House bureau chief in 2014. He covered the entire Trump administration for the "Post", as well as Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. He is also a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and a regular guest on PBS news shows. Jim Wertz, the Chairman of the Erie County Democratic Party, called him "one of Washington, D.C.'s most respected journalists." He is the co-author, with his "Post" colleague Carol Leonnig, of two best-selling books about the Trump administration. The first , "A Very Stable Genius." is an insider account of the first three years of Trump's presidency. The second, "I Alone Can Fix It," covers Trump's final year in office and its immediate aftermath.