Donald Trump appears to have gold on his mind.
Specifically, the United States’ gold reserves that are stored (or maybe not, if the latest ramblings and posts from the president and his top ally, world’s richest person Elon Musk, are to be believed) at Fort Knox, in Kentucky.
Asked by a reporter onboard Air Force One this week what the Musk-led non-official Department of Government Efficiency is looking to cut at the Department of Defense, Trump changed the subject to say:
“We’re going to go into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is there. You know that? We’re going to go into Fort Knox. You know about that?”
Then, when Trump was asked if DOGE was looking to “eliminate more national security positions,” he again dodged the question:
“We’ll see what happens. But one of the things we do want to look at. We hope everything is fine with Fort Knox. But we’re going to go to Fort Knox, the fabled Fort Knox, and make sure the gold is there.”
When asked where the gold could have gone, Trump replied: “If the gold isn’t there, we’re going to be very upset.”
On social media, critics ridiculed and ripped Trump’s comments in equal measure:
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