Ask HN: What could Trump / Musk gain from inspecting Fort Knox?

Re:Ask HN: What could Trump / Musk gain from inspecting Fort... by blackeyeblitzar on Saturday February 22, 2025 @02:42AM (#43137008)

If the gold reserves aren’t there then maybe we should be considering an alternative? Not sure. But auditing Fort Knox periodically seems reasonable to me. I would imagine there’s a process for this already but who knows.

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Re:Ask HN: What could Trump / Musk gain from inspecting Fort... by ggm on Saturday February 22, 2025 @02:47AM (#43137040)

I would imagine its continuously audited. They have a view the audit is untrustable based on "goldbug" conspiracy theories and frank malice. So, they wish to apply their own audit. Which has a predetermined outcome: it's bad for us and good for them.

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Re:Ask HN: What could Trump / Musk gain from inspecting Fort... by BLKNSLVR on Saturday February 22, 2025 @02:46AM (#43137033)

There appear to be annual partial audits which, as you said, make sense. Hence my confusion as to what the personal presence of Trump and Musk could possibly contribute.

Maybe it's as simple as wanting a behind the scenes tour, but they could probably do that without the media circus.

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