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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and head of the Department of State Efficiency (DOGE), expressed his support for the creation of a live broadcast of Fort Knox and its gold reserves. In response to a question about Musk verifying the gold at Fort Knox, the billionaire said he thought, 'it would be amazing to help with the live broadcast of Fort Knox.' Will explained that Fort Knox is a storage place for the US government where their gold reserves are located. It is located in Kentucky. 'I think that this gold belongs to the American people, so the American people should have the right to see their gold,' Musk said. 'Hopefully, it will look really cool. You know, open the doors, like, 'Is everything there? Is it really gold? Let's check.' Maybe it will be interesting,' he continued. Musk said he is 'totally for' and that President Donald Trump 'says he is interested in this, so hopefully it will happen.' Conspiracy theories about the status of gold at Fort Knox have been rampant on social media, and Musk and Trump have also speculated whether the bullion is stored in an extremely secure facility and whether it needs to be confirmed. 'Who confirms that the gold has not been stolen from Fort Knox?' the head of DOGE wrote on social media in mid-February, stating that 'maybe it's there, maybe not.' Musk has mentioned the live broadcast of Fort Knox several times in recent weeks. In mid-February, for example, he said on X that 'it would be so cool to do a live video walk in Fort Knox.' He also stated that 'the ratings for the live broadcast of Fort Knox would be' two flames. Both current and former treasury secretaries have noted that the gold is present at Fort Knox. Treasury Secretary Scott Best said in a February interview with journalist Dan O'Donnell, 'We do an audit annually, so the audit that ended at the end of September 2024 shows that all the gold is present and accounted for.' In August 2017, Steven Mnuchin, who headed the Treasury in Trump's first administration, made a trip to Fort Knox, according to the website of the US Mint. He was accompanied by then Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin and members of Congress. 'The gold was there when I visited it. I hope no one checked it. I am sure no one checked. 'I was the first treasury secretary to go there in, I think, over 50 years. There is a very serious security protocol, I certainly can’t talk about that. But we went, saw it, and if President Trump wants it to be audited, that can obviously be done easily,' Mnuchin assured last month on CNBC. Observing Fort Knox, he wrote on Twitter: 'Thank you to the staff of the Mint for their hospitality at #FortKnox #USBD. The first treasury secretary visited with the service of John Snyder in 1948. Glad the gold is safe!' Fort Knox contains 147.3 million troy ounces of gold bullion in deep storage, according to data published by the Treasury at the end of February. This represented a 'book value' of $6.2 billion. However, based on the price of the precious metal at the Time, the gold at Fort Knox is worth more than $459.2 billion. The US Mint reported on a page dedicated to the Fort Knox gold depository that 'only very small amounts of gold are selected for use in gold purity checks during regular audits,' and apart from that, the gold 'has not been transported to or from the depository for many years.' In total, as of the end of February, the US Department of the Treasury had nearly 261.5 million troy ounces of gold bullion and gold coins 'in various locations serviced by the Treasury'.
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