Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is railing against stay-at-home orders meant to slow the coronavirus pandemic, calling them “fascist” and likening them to “forcibly imprisoning people in their homes” during a Tesla earnings call on Wednesday.

“I would call it, ‘forcibly imprisoning people in their homes’ against all their Constitutional rights, in my opinion, and breaking people’s freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong and not why people came to America or built this country,” Musk said. “It’s an outrage.”

“Give people back their goddamn freedom,” he added.

The comments followed a string of tweets early Wednesday morning praising Texas for lifting some of its pandemic restrictions and complaining about continued coronavirus restrictions elsewhere across the country, saying, “FREE AMERICA NOW.”

The missive was the latest in a long line of tweets, dating back to late January, downplaying the threat of the pandemic.

“Give people their freedom back,” the Tesla founder tweeted Wednesday. He added in another reply: “Yes, reopen with care & appropriate protection, but don’t put everyone under de facto house arrest.”

They also reflect how one of the world’s wealthiest people has sought to leverage his enormous platform — Musk has 33.4 million Twitter followers — to influence the course of the pandemic response, sometimes downplaying the threat of the virus and contradicting guidance from government and health officials.