The former Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama bin Laden bragged about not wearing a “dumb ass” mask on a packed flight — an apparent dig at a face-covered passenger in a Marines cap.
“I’m not a p—y,” tweeted former SEAL Team Six member Robert O’Neill, 44 — alongside a photo of him smiling in his seat.
The only other person clearly in the shot is an elderly man wearing a mask and United States Marine Corps hat, and followers took it as a direct attack on his fellow passenger — with some even noting it was the same slur as he had used for the al Qaeda leader.
“Neither is the guy in the USMC hat,” one twitter user replied, referring to O’Neill’s slur. “And once again he’s serving his country by doing what he can to protect your right to be wrong.”
“You’re endangering a veteran’s life. how patriotic,” another person responded, while others noted the elderly passenger was “more susceptible than you are and smarter also !!”
O’Neill later deleted the tweet and claimed in a separate post sharing the NY Post’s article that: “This was not a dig at the Marine behind me. I love Marines…”
Either way, O’Neill’s distaste for people wearing masks was clear.
“China told you to wear a mask. Look down… you’re wearing a mask. I’m not,” he wrote in a series of tweets — also insisting, “Make no mistake.. this ‘pandemic’ was sent to you by China.”
“Do you remember the complete, incompetent morons buying all of the toilet paper? They’re the ones telling you to wear masks now,” he insisted in his online tirade.
“I know more about biological warfare than most of you. We were trained. These dumb ass masks do nothing. Nothing,” he insisted, adding that wearing a bandanna “does more harm than good.”
“I’m not being rude… I’m just telling you facts,” he insisted.
His messages sparked a furious backlash, though some came to his defense.
“Life on the line and three shots into OBL for all of us…but doesn’t wear a mask (that doesn’t really work anyway) and he’s all of the sudden selfish,” one defender tweeted.
O’Neill was the SEAL who fired three shots into the head of the al Qaeda leader during a top-secret May 2011 raid on his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
His Twitter bio reads, “I shot a famous guy. Thrice.”