Ugly American

But beneath those time-honored stereotypes of the “ugly American” lies another one, more dimly apprehended and shadowed by fear, next to which the loud, innocent ignorance of Kimberly and Justin — who have ventured forth from Applebee-land to Venice or Edinburgh or the castles of the Rhineland largely to say they have done so — seems positively benevolent.

In Donald J. Trump, the various species of ugly American have reached their conjoined apotheosis.

Those dudes are trying to play the sinister “ugly American” roles, although with a singular lack of suavity and not much success.

Jordan is insufferable, the worst kind of self-entitled Ugly American, but also endearing, perceptive and admirable in his tenacity.

I'd already heard the expression "the ugly American" — although I then knew nothing about the prophetic 1958 novel with that title about U.S. diplomatic bumbling in southeast Asia in the midst of the Cold War — and it seemed to me that those interlopers in France fit the term perfectly.