Trump gonna steal gold now.
Cuz the US is totally still on the Gold Standard. Right? RIGHT? Reich?
Another sympom of a rotten brain.
All that gold sitting around without a ballroom, anything could happen!
The doddering donald couldn’t find his own ass with two hands and a flashlight. Not sure what he thinks he is going to check on.
He’s going to steal it. Saying “they steal a lot” is starting the narrative to cover his own theft.
People are always the most suspicious of the behavior they are most capable of. A cheater thinks everyone is cheating on them, a thief thinks everyone is stealing from them. They rationalize to themselves that they are only stealing because everyone else is doing it, so they need to do it, too, just to keep it even.
He wants to see the gold, because he wants to steal it himself. I guarantee that he’s going to determine that the security of the gold is lacking, so HE will take possession of it for good keeping. It will be safer with him.
There is no gold in Fort Knox.
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He wants to know how much he can steal, or/and use to gild everything he’s going to remodel at mar a lago and the White House.
Any time he says “People are saying,” … it’s him. He thinks he’s people.
Seriously, every accusation is a confession with these people. He’s hoping they give him some gold to take home as a souvenir.
He’s hoping they give him some gold to take home as a souvenir.
He already thinks that it’s all his, and he’ll want it all.
(((They)))
Even putting aside the more outlandish (not “implausible”, just outlandish) theories about what Trump might be up to here, this is an objectively insane thing for an American president to say. He just announced to the world that ~$700bn of the US cash reserves are stored in a location that is not secure enough to prevent theft. At a time when the US debt to GDP is already skyrocketing and foreign lenders are getting increasingly concerned about America’s ability to make good on their debts. Is he trying to engineer a bond market crisis? Because this is the sort of thing you’d do if you were.
He does this all the time
He sells a bunch of stuff, crashes the market, then he buys a bunch of it back super cheap. Then, he announces something that makes the price stabilize, and he sells. Repeat.
It’s how he used the presidency to jump from millionaire to billionaire
Not to forget about the crypto scams, presidential merchandise, obvious corruption, polymarket bullshit… to name only a handful.
Bribes. Don’t forget the straight up BRIBES.
Imagine if you were trying to take down the US. All you would need to do is whisper the right things in his ear. But I’m sure that’s not what’s happening.
Imagine if you were trying to take down the US, and you decided to do anything at all differently from what he has done. The shame of the inefficiency would be too much.
Imagine if you’d raped a bunch of children and you were running out of ways to distract the world from the distractions you’d already tried. Crashing the whole world economy makes sense in the “if I can’t have it, nobody can” toddler brain that he’s working with at this point.
Fort Knox
Looks inside
„I O U $700bn“Not just US Bullion, other countries store their bullion there too. I believe France already removed it’s holdings or was in the process of
IIRC they sold it in situ and bought gold at home from the proceeds, so that they didn’t have to call the US bluff.
Thanks for the clarification. I hadn’t followed up on whether it was in progress or not. Much appreciated
Yeah my source is a Lemmy comment so take that as you will
It’s not about theft but “creative” accounting to multiply the reserves on paper. This should never be done on the gold reserves, but history have seen bigger scams than that.
I called this out during the DOGE days. Elon was tweeting about it, and I was like watch, they’re gonna “audit” it and find it’s magically all gone
"We have found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud so far, and we’ve just started,” Trump said
He meant to say “We have done hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud so far”
they steal a lot
(In a singing commercial jingle voice) Every accusation is a confeeeeeeeesion
The most transparent example of projection yet?
Trump is a thief so he thinks that everyone is a thief. Plus, I think trump did away with that Fort Knox gold a while ago so I look forward to his “surprised” face, to judge his acting skills.
That gold hasn’t been there since the 70s at least. We moved it all to a less well known location. Trump wasn’t involved, or else he would have stolen it all.
You mean his smirk when the “assassin” ran around outside the ballroom?
You think he cannot be any more brazen and greedy. And then he does.
From what I understand, Fort Knox having gold is just used to distract from it really being underneath a building in a secure complex in New York. If it has some it’s miniscule to what was there in say the 1950s.
Your understanding is correct.
Fort Knox holds about 4.6 thousand metric tons; the Federal Reserve in NY has about 6 thousand.
You can take a tour if you’re there. They put the gold in the basement, directly on the bedrock because it’s too expensive to build floors strong enough to hold it. You go down a security elevator and end up in a trap with the most intense locking mechanism you will ever encounter.
That said, the vast majority of what the Fed does, isn’t in gold. Their daily cash transactions dwarf the total amount of physical gold
This is correct. We don’t store the US’s gold there. We do store some valuable stuff like the crown jewels of either Denmark or the Netherlands there, but theft from Fort Knox would be all but impossible. I’m not gonna say that Ethan Hunt couldn’t do it, but knowing what the security system entails there, it would take an Ethan Hunt, or Jason Borne, to pull it off.
Just a regular Monday for Nicolas Cage.
Well, I’m sure someone is about to at least. Make sure to pat him and his entourage down as they leave.
