Trump Still Wants to Verify U.S. Gold Reserves at Ft. Knox

Technically, the largest gold vault in the US and in the world sits in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building, but that includes other countries’ stashes too.

Fort Knox’s significance to the U.S. economy has diminished since the country abandoned the gold standard for the dollar in 1971. For more than a century before that, the government maintained gold stockpiles to support the dollar.

Today, the gold is merely another asset held by the Federal Reserve. Discussions about inspecting Fort Knox to verify the government’s gold reserves faded after Elon Musk raised the issue last year, said The Post.

During his second term, Trump has embraced his background as a real estate mogul, often inspecting and renovating government properties.

Last week, in a first for the country, he drove the presidential motorcade down by the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to personally oversee the renovations taking place there. Trump had instructed his “pool guy” to apply an “American flag blue” coating to the iconic monument.

Trump began teasing a trip to Fort Knox last summer. “We’re gonna go into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is there,” Trump said in July.