Elon Musk mocked after people spot ‘top secret’ message written on his notepad in Trump cabinet meeting

Elon Musk has become the object of people's amusement once again after social media users spotted an interesting scrawl on his notepad.

While sitting alongside senior government officials at a cabinet meeting which was being publicly broadcast, the Tesla boss, 53, left his 'top secret' message in full view of the cameras.

And given the current concerns surrounding national security after the Signal group chat scandal, you can see why this would attract attention.

In March, the Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally added to a top-secret chat where war plans were being discussed on the encrypted app.

Vice President JD Vance, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard were all involved. But it was security adviser Mike Waltz who took the heat for it after confessing he 'built the group' chat and that his 'job is to make sure everything's coordinated'.

Musk made a point of not hiding his 'top secret' message (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Thankfully, Musk's 'top secret' message which was broadcast to the world during Thursday's (10 April) meeting wasn't actually of any substance.

The SpaceX CEO seemed to be poking fun at conspiracy theories circulating about him on the back of a New York Times article which was published last month.

The publication suggested that the head of DOGE was set to be briefed on classified military strategies which would be enacted in the event of a war between the US and China.

These claims were denied by Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, defence chief Hegseth, Trump and Musk himself.

President Trump said the report was merely a 'fake story' which was 'meant to undermine whatever relationship the Pentagon has with Elon Musk'.

As a result of all this, people think Musk was on the wind up during the cabinet meeting on Thursday - as he sat in front of a notepad with the words 'top secret' scribbled in black ink.

To emphasise just how private his notes were, he even added two exclamation marks and underlined the words. Wowza.

He seemed to be 'trolling' people in wake of the claims made by the New York Times (X)

His supporters seemed to think the stunt was absolutely hilarious, saying he was a master at trolling media outlets.

One person said in a post on X: "Elon is such a troll and I love him for it."

Another wrote: "I love seeing him troll them! It's one of the reasons I love this administration!"

And a third added: "Elon knows the games the media plays, so he decided to mess with them at the cabinet meeting by writing 'top secret' on his note pad, knowing they would be snapping pics of his notes/phone."

Musk himself seemed to agree with this assessment of his supposed prank, as he quote tweeted the final post and added a laughing emoji.

But a lot of other people were mocking Musk, branding it a lame attempt at humour which was pretty childish for someone who is a senior advisor to the President of the United States.

One person joked: "So cute, in a pre-teen sort of way," while another commented: Big boy with his big boy documents."

A third said: "How my five-year-old writes."