Denmark sets up ‘night watch’ to monitor Trump after Greenland row

Kit Harington as Jon Snow, who guarded the Seven Kingdoms from invaders as part of the Night’s Watch in the TV adaptation of Game of Thrones. Denmark’s night watch keeps track of the US president. Photograph: Helen Sloan/AP

The Danish government has set up a “night watch” in the foreign ministry, not to keep out the wildlings and White Walkers like the Night’s Watch of Game of Thrones, but rather to monitor Donald Trump’s pronouncements and movements while Copenhagen sleeps.

The night watch starts at 5pm local time each day and at 7am a report is produced and distributed around the Danish government and relevant departments about what was said and took place, the Politiken newspaper reported.