Trump and Elon Musk will go to Fort Knox to make sure no one 'stole' U.S. gold. How that conspiracy theory got started.

[Eugene]

Source: Yahoo! News

Trump and Elon Musk will go to Fort Knox to make sure no one 'stole' U.S. gold. How that conspiracy theory got started.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has tried to throw cold water on the idea that gold from the Kentucky military installation might be missing.

David Knowles·Editor
Updated Tue, February 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM EST·5 min read

Despite assurances made last week by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that all of the U.S. gold reserves kept at the Fort Knox military installation are “present and accounted for,” President Trump continues to insist that he and Elon Musk will soon travel to Kentucky to make sure the gold bars haven’t been stolen.

“We're going to open up the doors. I'm going to see we have gold there. We want to find out, did anybody steal the gold in Fort Knox?” Trump said in a speech last week to the Republican Governors Association.

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Fort Knox and the safety of just over half of the nation’s gold reserves has long been a subject that has captured the American imagination, inspiring novels and numerous conspiracy theories alleging that the gold may have been relocated or stolen. In the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, the eponymous villain seeks to detonate a dirty atomic bomb inside Fort Knox so as to contaminate the gold and destroy the U.S. economy.

The current dust-up over the United States Bullion Depository, aka Fort Knox, seems to have started with a tweet by the far-right Libertarian financial website Zero Hedge.

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[kimbutgar]

1. I fantasize that the past President make an appearance and crash this publicity stunt

Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden all show up and request they also get to see the gold and make sure the 🍑💩🤡 and the musk🐀 don’t help themselves to some bars.

[moose65]

2. Uh - correct me if I'm wrong, but......

Aren't there people who work at Ft. Knox?? And people who, oh you know, SEE the gold regularly?

Trump and Musk are so simple-minded and cartoonish. This is just a ploy for publicity, right? So they can "prove" something that was never in doubt to start with?

[dweller]

3. Hell , at this point I hope someone

Actually moved it to a safe place , in anticipation of Pisswig and e skum (N - ZA) potentially stealing it .
It would be a wise move .




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[Irish_Dem]

4. Bank robbers usually case the joint prior to the robbery.

[Wiz Imp]

5. Yosemite Sam stole it

[Wuddles440]

6. Didn't the Munchkin Man do a photo-op...

there during the first Drumpf reign of terror? What happened during then and now? Oh, that's right the Biden administration. Their fixation on the gold and Ft. Knox is beyond weird and actually disturbing. I'm sure that they've concocted some scheme to allege that there's gold missing and blame it on Biden. If they have several semis accompanying them during this visit, beware!

[Jim__]

7. I guess Trump can't verify it himself. He needs Musk to tell him if he can believe what he sees.

[Cinjanik]

8. Fort Knox

How will we know if they steal it, and say it was already gone?

[Kablooie]

9. When Trump sees all that gold he's going to want it for himself, I'll bet.

Once he is secure in his kingship he will be able to take whatever he wants to make himself richer.