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

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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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