Replace "Tesla" with "White House," "CEO" with "President," and "funding secured" with... well pretty much anything, and you have the situation from which Bannon found himself fired less than a year ago.
The entire time I was reading this article, all I could think was, "Well ain't that the pot calling the kettle n-" ...Nevermind
Yeah ... pot, meet kettle. But it suits his purposes of the moment to use this line of reasoning to attack a particular concept or entity or person ... that is characteristic of him and Trump and the rest.
A similar example yesterday is Trump railed that any news story from "unnamed sources" must inherently be false. Less than an hour later he cited a story from an unnamed source to bolster some argument of his own.
So it goes ...