President Donald Trump said he's going to check on the country's supply of gold stored at the infamously secure Fort Knox depository.

No, President Donald Trump is not actually going to Fort Knox to make sure the gold is safely stockpiled there. It’s regularly audited, and the numbers are publicly reported down to the last troy ounce. There’s no reason he couldn’t send a trusted aide on that mission.

The state of the U.S. government’s gold reserve at Fort Knox has been the focus of conspiracy theories for decades. The highly secure Kentucky military base stores 147.3 milli

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.

President Trump and Elon Musk aim to verify Fort Knox's gold reserves, addressing public skepticism about its contents.

Trump responded that Musk will instead be looking at Fort Knox. I'm assuming there was a uncomfortably long pause before the reporter asked why. "To make sure the gold is there,” Trump responded. Whether the gold is actually at Fort Knox is a question Musk had posed a few days previously in this post on X: This has led many to believe that something happened to the gold at Fort Knox.