Trump wants to check on the gold in Fort Knox because ‘they steal a lot’
2026-05-11 05:28 UTC
Replies (38)
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@aarch0x40@piefed.social 2026-05-11 05:38
Well, I'm sure someone is about to at least. Make sure to pat him and his entourage down as they leave.
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@Tikiporch@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 05:53
"I want to see if the gold is there, which I’m sure it will be.” Just more of the same 24/7 bullshit.
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@Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-11 16:54
Even putting aside the more outlandish (not "implausible", just outlandish) theories about what Trump might be up to here, this is an objectively insane thing for an American president to say. He just announced to the world that ~$700bn of the US cash reserves are stored in a location that is not secure enough to prevent theft. At a time when the US debt to GDP is already skyrocketing and foreign lenders are getting increasingly concerned about America's ability to make good on their debts. Is he trying to engineer a bond market crisis? Because this is the sort of thing you'd do if you were.
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@jaybone@lemmy.zip 2026-05-11 08:50
“Well, looks like “they” stole it. Such a shame. Nothing else to see here.” -Trump
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@fox2263@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 21:05
> They
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@melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2026-05-11 13:01
Trump is a thief so he thinks that everyone is a thief. Plus, I think trump did away with that Fort Knox gold a while ago so I look forward to his "surprised" face, to judge his acting skills.
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@phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2026-05-11 14:17
> they steal a lot (In a singing commercial jingle voice) Every accusation is a confeeeeeeeesion
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@Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 16:41
I called this out during the DOGE days. Elon was tweeting about it, and I was like watch, they're gonna "audit" it and find it's magically all gone
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@W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2026-05-11 17:00
> "We have found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud so far, and we’ve just started,” Trump said He meant to say “We have done hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud so far”
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@stumu415@lemmy.zip 2026-05-11 11:39
Takes a thief to recognize game
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@BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-11 14:20
From what I understand, Fort Knox having gold is just used to distract from it really being underneath a building in a secure complex in New York. If it has some it's miniscule to what was there in say the 1950s.
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@devolution@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 14:51
You think he cannot be any more brazen and greedy. And then he does.
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@phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2026-05-12 09:15
Another sympom of a rotten brain.
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@HeroicBillyBishop@lemmy.ca 2026-05-11 09:23
it is 100% empty
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@altphoto@lemmy.today 2026-05-11 14:01
He wants to swim in the ingots like Scrooge McDuck! "Splash me boys!"...."with pleasure!"
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@ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml 2026-05-12 00:28
There is no gold in Fort Knox.
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@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2026-05-12 02:11
The doddering donald couldn't find his own ass with two hands and a flashlight. Not sure what he thinks he is going to check on.
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@Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-11 06:32
I'm sure they do because I do
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@Treczoks@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 14:15
I wonder if they still have the gold they are storing for other nations... And how much gold Trump will take from Fort Knox to outfit his "ballroom" with life sized massive golden statues of himself.
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@ji59@hilariouschaos.com 2026-05-11 07:26
Maybe he is just trying to get in there to swim in the gold? Please?
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@DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2026-05-11 09:32
Don't be silly. Goldfinger was a bald billionaire who was obsessed with gold; who cheated at golf; who was buddies with a sinister Korean; who wanted to destroy the US economy to make himself richer. Trump isn't technically bald.
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@GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 10:13
A golden crown, you say? 
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@Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 2026-05-11 07:19
Considering that the average gold bar used by banks is around 12kg, he's going to need someone to help him to carry those out.
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@backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2026-05-11 12:36
That ballroom isn’t going to tacky itself up.
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@monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 12:12
He’ll want to hold an event at Mar-a-lago with a giant stack of gold. Then the stack disappears. The Supreme Court then says that since he stole it as the president it is legal.
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@SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 08:43
I hope he drinks it.
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@zqps@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-12 10:31
This was probably an artistic choice to make it look like gold rather than any molten metal to the average watcher.
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@GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2026-05-14 00:50
Not the point 🥲
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@glitch1985@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 16:04
Just a regular Monday for Nicolas Cage.
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@HK65@sopuli.xyz 2026-05-11 22:14
IIRC they sold it in situ and bought gold at home from the proceeds, so that they didn't have to call the US bluff.
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@HK65@sopuli.xyz 2026-05-12 00:20
Yeah my source is a Lemmy comment so take that as you will
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@anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-12 09:52
Imagine if you’d raped a bunch of children and you were running out of ways to distract the world from the distractions you’d already tried. Crashing the whole world economy makes sense in the “if I can’t have it, nobody can” toddler brain that he’s working with at this point.
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@ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 06:58
He's looking for any excuse to get in there so he can walk out with some of the gold. Fuck knows what he'll do with it, given his obsession with that precious metal. Shave bits off and put it on his hamberders; melt it and create a gold crown with built-in toupee; create yet another fucking statue to himself or another gold toilet to shit in; store it in his Mar A Lago bathroom like it's some sort of classified info; use it for his stupid ball room; jizz all over it.
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@MimicJar@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 07:33
[Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell visited in August 2017](https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/politics/steve-mnuchin-flights) during Trump's first term. There was also a bunch of chatter about Musk visiting about a year ago, but that never happened. So we're just in a loop of making shit up. Sure, technically it's been ~9 years since someone in the Trump administration has publicly been there, but [Trump's current Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also agrees that all the money is there and regularly audited.](https://www.the-independent.com/news/army-scott-bessent-donald-trump-louisville-american-b2701854.html) I know we all know it's bullshit, but I wanted to add some facts to the conversation. (And yes, there is some irony in the source of the facts being Trump's various Treasury Secretaries.)
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@icedaemon0@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 11:00
Trump: i swear it was empty when i opened the door! 
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@Eh_I@lemmy.world 2026-05-12 02:05
All that gold sitting around without a ballroom, anything could happen!
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@Xtreasonerx@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 16:02
The most transparent example of projection yet?
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@RattlerSix@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 14:28
Did his sons just visit Fort Knox?