At CPAC, President Trump announced that he and DOGE chief Elon Musk will visit Fort Knox to check the U.S. gold reserves. The visit follows social media speculation about missing gold and a debate between Musk and Senator Rand Paul over the lack of audits since 1974.

President Donald Trump says his administration will audit Fort Knox's gold reserves and will be "very upset" if it's found missing.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Elon Musk would be checking out Fort Knox to make sure the gold is still there. While flying back to Washington aboard Air Force One on Wednesday night, a reporter asked President Donald Trump whether Elon Musk would pursue budget cuts at the Pentagon.

Trump said Musk would be looking at Fort Knox, the legendary depository for American gold reserves in Kentucky. Why? “To make sure the gold is there,” Trump said.

Elon Musk was pushing for an audit of Fort Knox to make sure gold is still there. Donald Trump promised to do just that, but his Treasury Secretary says it's "present and accounted for."

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and head of the powerful Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and President Donald Trump elevated decades-old conspiracies about the state of the U.S. government’s gold reserve at Fort Knox this week,