Google is your friend. While there, please try to find the record of Elon saying he wants more subsidies, as presumably you'd also like to see the record of that.

So your assumption here is that Elon is trying to do some sort of reverse psychology trick, or...?

You can't just make up motivations for people. He has said repeatedly that the government should get rid of subsidies. When the government then gets rid of subsidies, people say he is mad about that. A citation is very much needed.