There is the obvious assumption of cultural superiority over Americans. But there are also the bright young French who flock to Silicon Valley because that is where the economy of the future is being invented. The information age is the new American empire. France has a government agency to protect its language from Americanization. But French newspapers are riddled with Americanisms.
American culture is inescapable, and therefore both copied and resented.
I imagine her saying that with a sort of starry-eyed gaze. We are the indispensable nation. Even Nelson Mandela felt compelled to speak up when we objected to his paying a courtesy call on Colonel Gadaffi, who had stood by him in his hour of need. But things have changed with our European allies. They stuck by us through a half century of the Cold War.