President Donald Trump was ridiculed on Friday morning for going down another internet conspiracy rabbit hole and telling reporters he fears Ft. Knox does not contain all the gold the government has been claiming.
In a recent interview on Air Force One, the president told reporters, "We’re going to go into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is there. You know that? We’re going to go into Fort Knox,” before adding, "If the gold isn’t there, we’re going to be very upset.”
Using a late-night monologue on Trump latest obsession by TV host Stephen Colbert as a leaping-off point, "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Jonathan Lemire laughed at the president for buying into another unsupported fantasy pushed in conspiracy circles.
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After watching the Colbert clip, a laughing Scarborough told a smirking Lemire, "You know, Jonathan, well, a couple of things here. Ronald Reagan's aides used to be distressed that he would look at Reader's Digest and, in reading Reader's Digest, he would get ideas for policies. Right now, like, if that's all Donald Trump read instead of the garbage on X, all of the conspiracy theories on X, that would be like for his staff members, that would be a wonderful thing."
"But so much that gets like so many conspiracy theories that get knocked around on X actually end up coming out of the president's mouth," he pointed out. "I mean, he could talk to Steve Mnuchin. You remember that picture of Steve Mnuchin and his wife at Fort Knox back in the in the first term? Yeah, exactly, so I think I think there's still gold at Fort Knox but, yeah, it's just it's an example isn't it? Conspiracy theories run wild."
That led Lemire to quip, "Right now the nation turns its lonely eyes toward Reader's Digest."
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