Ask HN: What could Trump / Musk gain from inspecting Fort Knox?

I'm not sure if there's any possible "win" scenario from inspecting Fort Knox.

- How are they personally going to check the quality of every ingot of 400 tonnes of gold?

- How are they going to personally verify that there is actually 400 tonnes of gold?

- Pandering to conspiracy theorists seems to be a vote winner, but this would likely put an end to a conspiracy theory, which doesn't seem to be their MO.

- What if it's all there? What a waste, answering a question no one asked. That's the opposite of Government Efiiciency.

- What if it's not all there?

  - Blame Biden? Apparently they haven't had a full audit of the content of Fort Knox since the 50s and a partial audit in the 70s and there have been a LOT of administrations since the 70s, never mind the 50s, of both colours.

  - Fort Knox isn't / wasn't the fortress of its reputation.

  - They've just announced to the world that the US isn't as rich in gold as they'd been saying they are for over half-a-century.

  - What do they do now?

The only outcome I can see is that this going to be used as a platform for advertising the immutability and transparent accountability of blockchain technology. Question gold, point to an existing solution, pump bitcoin / cryptocurrency, make bank, again, and make loyalists of all the crypto-bros.

What other end game could they have in mind for this little exercise? (I can't see past my own theory)