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

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.

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.