President Donald Trump on Sunday said he still wanted to examine the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox—, a fixation for a time during his first year in office—as he again speculated about the condition of the United States’ bullion depository.
Gold bars stored at the U.S. Depository in Ft. Knox in 1974 photo.
Speaking on Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson, a program broadcast by Sinclair Broadcast Group, Trump responded to a viewer question about an audit of Fort Knox he supposedly announced last February.
Trump said he “played with” the idea of an audit and “wanted to go knock on the door of Fort Knox,” a push then-Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk heavily promoted at the time.
The president added, “I wonder if they left the gold in Fort Knox because they steal a lot,” but did not elaborate on who would have supposedly stolen the reserves, which are estimated to hold 147.3 million fine troy ounces of gold in the Kentucky military base, which is priced at $42.22 per ounce.
