Hey, Elon, put down the chainsaw — you can go to Fort Knox. Elon Musk, the world's richest man, got the crowd roaring at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference when he wielded a portable power tool presented to him by Argentine President Javier Milei,

Elon Musk was pushing for an audit of Fort Knox to make sure gold is still there. Donald Trump promised to do just that, but his Treasury Secretary says it's "present and accounted for."

The United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox has stored precious metal bullion reserves for the United States since 1937.

President Trump has tasked Elon Musk with an enormous job of searching the federal government and rooting out inefficiencies and waste. But Musk’s initial, often chaotic, infiltration of various departments has set off alarm bells.