Posted on 08/21/2017 12:46:10 PM PDT by ARGLOCKGUY
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will check out the nation’s gold stash when he pays a rare official visit to Fort Knox on Monday -- while keeping an open mind for future film projects.
“I assume the gold is still there,” the former Hollywood producer joked to an audience in Louisville, Kentucky, 40 miles (64 km) north of the U.S. Bullion Depository. “It would really be quite a movie if we walked in and there was no gold.”
Fort Knox has been seared into the public imagination since the 1964 James Bond movie “Goldfinger,” in which the British spy, played by Sean Connery, foiled a plot to contaminate the nation’s bullion.
Mnuchin, whose action-film credits include ‘‘Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Lego Batman Movie” and “Suicide Squad,” said that he will be only the third secretary of the Treasury who has gone inside the vault since it was created in 1936 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Oh please. There’s no gold there.
I used to drive by it on my way to work at Ft Knox. You can’t even stop your car while driving by. Don’t run out of gas if prison scares you. :)
In the military musium there, they have the original model of the gold depository used in the Bond movie.
I think I can safely say that Fort Knox has been “seared” into the public’s knowledge banks/imagination ever since it was created. The movies have just picked up on that knowledge.
Munching will be surprised to discover (maybe not) that Obama shipped it all to his Muslim buddies.
“Oh please. There’s no gold there.”
Of course not, Bill Clinton was president for 8 years.
Similarly, where did Libya’s gold go? It disappeared when Hillary was Secretary of State and she took Libya over and took the gold.
That’s what they do.
I’d be surprised if the gold was still there.
You can’t say gold and fort Knox in the dame sentence without the horns from Goldfinger.
If Mnuchin said he'd examined the vaults and the gold is there would you believe him?
I’d be just as surprised if he was honest about it.
If he sees any gold bars, he better check that the paint doesn’t scrape off.
If there was any gold in the past fifty years, Hillary stuffed it in her purse when she left the WH.
Yep. Lead bars painted gold.
Enough to gild the Tungsten.
Thanks to @usmint staff for hosting at #FortKnox #USBD. First @USTreasury Secretary to visit since John Snyder in 1948. Glad gold is safe!
I hope Mnuchin brings a camera crew to record what
what's there. And of course shows it to America.
You know, I find it hard to believe that that the place
has only been visited three times by the Treasury Secretary
since 1936.
Maybe they have already been informed
that there's nothing to see?
(Auric Goldfinger really did swipe all the gold?)
I asked myself the same question. Answer is “trust but verify.”
Obumer raided it to give all his pimps free Obama bling and a free Obama gold tooth.
But he didn’t say. It also seems he received no answer to his questioning quip. Perhaps we should go directly to the first question. How long has it been missing and was it ever ‘really there’. It might have been no more than a figment of imagination in the mind of any liberal. After all, they all claimed BO’B and ‘Illary to be the two smartest people in the world today.
“Is it safe?”
“Is it safe?”
(reference—the dentist in Marathon Man—that is what it take for me to believe “it was safe”)
:-)
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