The ex-Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden and bragged on Twitter about not wearing a “mute mask” on a Delta flight is now banned from the airline, he said Thursday.
“I’m just banned from @Delta for posting a photo. Wow, ”Robert O’Neill, 44, tweeted.
The move comes a day after he tweeted a smiling, maskless selfie from his chair titled “I’m not ap – y.”
Many of O’Neill’s Twitter followers took the post as a direct count on the only other person in the photo: an elderly man wearing a U.S. Marine Corps hat and a mask.
The former member of SEAL Team Six later took the photo down – at the urging of his wife, he claimed – and also insisted that he always wore a mask and that the tweet was “a joke”.
‘This was not a count at the Navy behind me. I love Marines…, ” he wrote in another tweet linked to an article in The Post.
Delta confirmed O’Neill is no longer welcome on board.
“Part of every customer’s commitment prior to traveling on Delta is the requirement to recognize our updated travel policies, including wearing a mask,” the airline said in a statement.
“If you do not comply with our masked mandate, it may lose the ability to fly Delta in the future.”
The Montana native fired three shots into the al-Qaida leader’s head during the May 2011 raid on his hidden Pakistan.
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