The former Navy SEAL who said he shot Osama bin Laden says he's been banned from Delta Air Lines.
Robert J. O'Neill, former SEAL Team Six member, wrote on Twitter Thursday that the airline banned him after he posted a photo on Wednesday of himself on a Delta flight without wearing a mask.
In the now-deleted tweet that included the photo, O'Neill wrote that he wasn't wearing a "dumb ass" mask because "I'm not a p----."
That led to the ban, O'Neill said on Twitter Thursday.
In a follow-up tweet Thursday, O'Neill told his nearly 376,000 followers that he had his mask in his lap when the photo was taken.
"Thank God it wasn't Delta flying us when we killed bin Laden," he wrote. "We weren't wearing masks."
After the tweet and photo of O'Neill not wearing a mask on his flight gained attention, O'Neill said the photo was an "attempt at a joke."
The tweet featuring the photo was deleted, but O'Neill said he did not delete it.
"My wife did," he wrote.
“All customers who don’t comply with our mask-wearing requirement risk losing their ability to fly Delta in the future,” spokeswomen Kyla Ross previously told The New York Post when asked about the incident.
In 2014, O'Neill, one of dozens of U.S. special operators who stormed bin Laden's compound on May 2, 2011, revealed himself as the shooter who killed America's most wanted man. O'Neill told The Washington Post in 2014 that he was the unnamed SEAL who was first through the door into bin Laden's room that night, shooting him in the head and killing him. O'Neill previously gave an anonymous interview about killing bin Laden to Esquire magazine, where he was referred to only as "the shooter."
O'Neill's decision to identify himself was met with some criticism in the special operations community.