“We are going to be very upset” if the US gold is not there: Trump

President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk are fanning an ancient theory of conspiracy that has been intrigued to the public decades: Does the gold of the United States government stored in the Vaults of Fort Knox follow?

With Trump’s arrival at the White House in January 2025, and with the advice of Musk – an influential one in economic policy issues – the question has ceased to be a marginal rumor to become a public debate.

This questioning, which Musk has transferred to the social network X, arises in a context of growing distrust of traditional financial institutions. Especially at a time when the auditing team of the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) discovered that the US Treasury has operated for decades with critically absent financial controls. So much so that, according to internal documents, more than 50 billion dollars annually – self -devoted to 1,000 million per week – deviated to fraudulent accounts without identification.

Doge’s investigations determined that almost 24% of the United States Treasury budget is lost in waste, fraud or abuse. The system, according to the findings, lacked automatic audits and allowed payments to accounts without identification, violating basic financial security protocols.

So, based on that discovery, are there reasons of weight to think that the gold reserves of the United States are not complete? Well, the answer that Elon Musk has given to that question is yes, something to which the president of the nation himself has joined.

Elon is going to investigate Fort Knox, “Trump said. “To make sure the gold is there.” He delivered these words aboard the Air Force One presidential aircraft that returned to Washington along with Musk after a trip. When he was pressed on why the presence of gold was in doubt, Trump redoubled the bet: “If gold is not there, we will be very annoying”he replied.

Musk, who now appears as a Trump informal advisor in technology and defense matters, has been publishing multiple messages in X, questioning the integrity of Fort Knox reserves, as Cryptonoticia reported.

“All gold is present and counted,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, yesterday during an interview. At that time, he emphasized that an audit is carried out every year. However, the official treasure site indicates that The last audit made in the place was 50 years ago (In 1974), and since then only partial or symbolic inspections are made.

In spite of all this, Musk proposes to make a video tour by Fort Knox, which is the place where almost 60% of the gold of US reserves is stored. Doubts about the integrity of the Treasury in Langotes have been fed for more than half a century, when Fort Knox visits were completely prohibited in response to rumors that gold kept in the deposit had disappeared.

While Musk and other American politicians demand clarity about the treasure in gold, the bitcoin reserve of El Salvador stands out for its transparency since it is in view of any user who enters to detail them through their site in Mempool Space.