Robert O’Neil is the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden so he’s unquestionably a national hero.
But that’s not going to be enough to get him a ticket on Delta anytime soon.
That’s because O’Neil got a little loose with his mask — specifically, he took it off — during a recent flight, snapped a pic, and tweeted it out.
“I’m not a (expletive),” he captioned the picture of himself smiling, with another man across the aisle, wearing a Marines hat and a mask clearly visible.
According to a Yahoo.com report, the tweet, which has since been deleted, drew an “instant backlash.”
Delta noticed and issued the ban.
“Part of every customer’s commitment prior to traveling on Delta is the requirement to acknowledge or updated travel policies, which includes wearing a mask,” the airline told Yahoo. “Failure to comply with our mask-wearing mandate can result in losing the ability to fly Delta in the future.”
The backlash O’Neil experienced on Twitter wasn’t limited to the fact that he wasn’t wearing his mask during the pandemic. Some believed he was attempting to belittled the masked man across the aisle for him.
“Neither is the guy in the USMC hat,” one Twitter user replied to O’Neil. “And once again he’s serving his country by doing what he can to protect your right to be wrong.”
And, Yahoo reported, another person wrote, “You’re endangering a veteran’s life. How patriotic.”
O’Neil said on Twitter, according to Yahoo, that he was not attempting to belittle the veteran across from him.
He also rattled off a few tweets, claiming in one, that masks don’t work.
“I know more about biological warfare than most of you,” he wrote. “We were trained. These dumb (behind) masks do nothing. Nothing. I’m not being rude … I’m just telling you facts.”
Multiple doctors and scientists say masks help stop the spread of the virus.
O’Neil later tweeted, according to Yahoo, that he was only joking in the tweet and did wear a mask.
“I am not the bad guy,” he wrote. “I killed the gad guy.”
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