'People might treat us differently': Trump era leaves US tourists in Paris feeling shame

BBC News ^ | April 12, 2025 | By Andrew Harding

[Ann Archy]

Stupid people.....Anyone wearing a baseball cap in Europe is KNOWN AS AN AMERICAN!

[stars & stripes forever]

Stay at home. Pump up AMERICA’S economy.

MO SHAME HERE. MAGA.

[virgil]

I don’t know, but the reports I hear from friends who’ve been to Paris say they have never treated Americans very nicely. Snobs. People in the countryside are nicer and the view there is a lot prettier. I’ve visited the French countryside myself and I agree.

[TangoLimaSierra]

So, they're afraid the French might treat us nicely?
That would be different.

[sauropod]

At first, I thought it was Lincoln Project Rick Wilson.

[odawg]

“...said Rick, as he and his wife contemplated the sudden sense of shame and embarrassment they said they now felt, as Americans, following President Trump’s abrupt moves on global trading tariffs.”

So, why don’t the gutless idiots stay over there? I suppose visiting the cemetary at Normandy would make them feel shame.

[SMARTY]

Not to worry.

Just remind the that their 'shame and embarrassment' were annulled for all time at Normandy!

[Flaming Conservative]

You forgot the barf alert.

[stanne]

Hoping Parisians like us is a disgusting sentiment

Paris and the rest of France are great. The food, wine, the vistas. The flowers.

Touring Catholic religious sites, going on pilgrimages through Paris and the rest of France. I appreciate when I meet French people who realize how God blessed France

Why should any American give a crap what the parisians think sbout Trump, a subject they know absolutely nothing about, less than they know and care about how great America is. Our people saved them from the Nazis and they despise us.

[Celtic Conservative]

A**holes. I’ve been to France. It’s not very clean.

CC

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“…another American couple was also trying to keep a lower profile than usual”

By and large, that’s a good thing!

[glennaro]

...he'd taken a small piece of black tape and covered up the Stars and Stripes flag on the corner of his baseball cap

The Democrat/Communist Party's definition of a "patriot" (much like the cult's re-definition of the word "democracy".)

[hardspunned]

The two times I’ve been to France I found Frenchmen to be real pricks. Both trips were during the Obama administration.

[Fai Mao]

I have found the French much nicer than the British

[rktman]

Only you can prevent feeling ashamed! Likely they didn’t vote for PDJT. THAT should cause shame on them. Gay paree sux anyway.

[FamiliarFace]

I’ve never been, but I hear that’s how most Europeans, not just the French, regard American tourists. Part of it was due to Americans assuming everyone speaks English. It is maybe basic English that they do speak, but Americans should try to learn their languages or at least show the effort.

[Brian Griffin]

I have found ordinary Europeans to be quite nice.

Unfortunately, a large percentage of their leaders stink as badly as our own and in some cases, worse.

[rktman]

One from Oregon and one from newyork so “American” might be a stretch.....

[daku]

Scumbags