Former Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill, who claims to have single-handedly killed Osama bin Laden, has been banned from Delta Air Lines after tweeting a maskless selfie aboard an apparently packed flight this week, he said Thursday.
"I just got banned from @Delta for posting a picture. Wow," he wrote on Twitter.
The ban comes a day after the former service member posted a photo of himself sitting in an airplane without wearing a mask, an apparent violation of Delta's rules to prevent the spread of coronavirus on its flights.
The photo, which he captioned with the phrase, "I'm not a p---y," quickly went viral before it disappeared from Twitter hours later.
O'Neill said he was not the one who removed the picture. "I didn't delete my tweet. My wife did," he wrote Wednesday.
But the damage had already been done.
The photo caught the attention of many critics, including actress and activist Alyssa Milano.
"You do realize you may be a-symptomatic and give the virus to other people that could potentially kill them," she wrote in a reply to his tweet. "I think that makes you a sociopath. Besides, p-----s are actually so strong that we can deliver human beings out of them. Please, I'm begging you, wear a damn mask."
O'Neill took issue with her characterization, saying, "I do wear a mask, @Alyssa(underscore)Milano ... this attempt at a joke did NOT go over well ... "
Delta did not immediately return a request for comment Thursday afternoon.
