Matt Leinart is the latest celebrity to face backlash for complaining about COVID-19 restrictions

Matt Leinart was Twitter’s punching bag on Sunday night after threatening to move over Los Angeles’s restaurant shutdown. The former USC quarterback is the latest celebrity to be labeled “out of touch” for his reaction to new COVID-19 restrictions.

As coronavirus cases surge in L.A. County, the city announced indoor and outdoor dining will close this week. “LA just closed all dining INDOOR/OUTDOOR for 3 weeks? Can’t wait to move out of this awful place,” Leinart wrote in a now-deleted tweet. “Ridiculous.”

The 2004 Heisman Trophy winner was immediately slammed, with one person noting that his $2.245 million home in Manhattan Beach, Calif. “sounds like a nice place to enjoy some takeout.”

“The only thing more out of touch than griping about having to get takeout is thinking deleting a tweet cuts it in 2020,” wrote someone else.

Leinart was also called “selfish” and a “huge disappointment” while others just mocked the Fox Sports analyst.

Leinart responded to the backlash in real-time, slamming “lefties” and said he wears a mask. “Stop being bullies!” he wrote.

The former college athlete’s wife, Josie Loren, jumped into the fray, too. The actor and activist said their frustration has “nothing to do with eating out.”

“We’ve seen our friends’ & family’s businesses struggle & most importantly, have seen the toll this has taken on kids not being able to return to school,” she wrote on Sunday.

Leinart’s remark comes after Kelly Stafford vented about COVID-19 restrictions, which also didn’t go over very well.

Kelly, wife of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, recently lamented she was over living “in a dictatorship that we call Michigan.” Her comments were in response to the state’s emergency order calling for a “three-week pause” on indoor gatherings.

“If you are at risk, do not leave your house until there’s a vaccine. But shutting down all these small businesses, things that people have worked their life for, shutting them down again is not the answer. Because they will not make it,” she said on her Instagram Live last week. “So once we are able to leave our house, once this dictatorship decides to let us have some freedom, there will be nothing left. I’m just over it. I see all these people and it brings me to tears.”

Kelly later apologized for using the word “dictatorship” and said she got “caught up in the moment.”

“I care about the people who are losing their lives or battling this.. and also the medical staff who care for them,” she wrote. “And it is hard knowing these local business owners and watching them struggle and having to lay off their employees, not knowing how they are gonna make it. So I’m sorry, I let my emotions get the best of me.”

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