Donald Trump was asked about his weird promise to make sure there was still gold in Fort Knox and his response was 24 carat fool’s gold

The Fort Knox Bullion Depository in Fort Knox, KY currently holds 147,341,858.382 fine troy ounces of gold. No visitors are allowed at one of the most noteworthy gold storage facilities in the world.

Because of that, conspiracy theories have popped up claiming that there is actually no gold in the building.

One of those theorists happens to be the President of the United States of America, who made it a singular mission of his to visit the site and confirm that no one stole any of that gold.

He brought this up repeatedly for weeks. He even got Elon Musk on the case (before the bros’ very messy public break up).

So when the President was asked about the Fort Knox audit on a podcast recently, it was a little alarming that he had absolutely no idea what the host was talking about.

ATTKISSON: What happened to the audit of Fort Knox?

TRUMP: Which one are you talking about?

ATTKISSON: You and Elon Musk talked about auditing the gold

TRUMP: We wanted to go knock on the door and see whether or not we have any gold in there. We played with that. I wonder if… pic.twitter.com/7ZYem7h9g3

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 10, 2026

To be fair, Trump makes a lot of baseless claims. So it’s understandable that he might have trouble keeping his lies straight.

Lucky for the President, Twitter swooped in to supply plenty of reminders.

1.

This was all he spoke about for like weeks https://t.co/waZbOAxFQR

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) May 10, 2026

2.

Trump can’t keep track of his own lies and false promises. https://t.co/RTNOlKJ60P

— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) May 10, 2026

3.

Great. She put the idea back in his head.

— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) May 10, 2026

4.

I’m so tired of this brain dead fuck.

— Robert J Ellingsworth 🆓 (@BY1959) May 10, 2026

5.

We got high rent, gas and groceries , wars popping off every other week, and now we doing Scooby Doo investigations about whether Fort Knox still got gold in it.

— Blaze:3 (@SpicyyNews) May 10, 2026

6.

Shows how Trump throws out a lot of plans and immediately forgets about them. Never follows up. Never changes his mind. Just does nothing. Laziest president ever.
Still waiting for those health and infrastructure plans promised years ago.

— lobachevsky (@vladlobachevsk2) May 10, 2026

7.

The president of the United States casually alleges that there is theft of the nation’s gold reserves, but it won’t be a news story because the president is a buffoon. https://t.co/TFimT9TAtB

— Michael Freeman (@michaelpfreeman) May 10, 2026