Trump wants Fort Knox ‘physically audited’ after stunning $40M arrest — here's why so many are after the yellow metal

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The spotlight is back on Fort Knox, thanks to a renewed push for an in-person audit by President Donald Trump — a demand fueled by his Truth Social (1) post referencing a New York Post story (2) about a former CIA official, David Rush, allegedly caught with a staggering $40 million in gold bars.

On Truth Social, Trump reposted a screenshot of the article covering the Rush case and added a brief message: “Time to Physically Audit Fort Knox.”

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This isn’t a new fixation for Trump, who’s been floating the idea of personally visiting Fort Knox to verify that America’s gold reserves are still there since February 2025.

“We’re going to go into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is there,” he said at the time to reporters (3). “If it’s not, we’re going to be very upset.”