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

Trump made similar comments in February, telling reporters, “You know that? We’re gonna go into Fort Knox. Do you know about that?”

“One of the things we do want to look — I mean, we hope everything’s fine with Fort Knox, but we’re gonna go to Fort Knox, the fabled Fort Knox, to make sure the gold is there,” he said.

“Where would the gold have gone?” a reporter asked. “If the gold isn’t there, we’re gonna be very upset,” the president replied.

That week, Gold opened at $2,950.01 an ounce on the markets, so the price per ounce has nearly doubled since then.

In addition to storing gold reserves, Fort Knox also serves as the U.S. Army’s Human Resources Command Center and hosts the Army’s largest annual training event each summer, the Economic Times reported.