Gold at Fort Knox? Donald Trump Doesn’t Think So
Dangerous bullshit.
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump hinted at the idea that there just might be no gold in the U.S.
“I like the gold standard and there is something very nice about it,” he said, in March 2015, in an interview with Josh McElveen, host of Conversation with the Candidate on ABC affiliate WMUR9. “We used to have a very solid country because it was based on a gold standard.”“It would be very hard to do at this point and one of the problems is we do not have the gold. Other places have the gold,” he said.
According to the latest World Gold Council data, the U.S. still ranks first in gold holdings, which are at 8,133.5 tonnes as of March 2016. That represents 73.3% of the country’s total reserves.