Denmark sets up 'night watch' to monitor Trump after Greenland row
Source: The Guardian
Thu 27 Nov 2025 08.14 EST
Last modified on Fri 28 Nov 2025 00.23 EST
The Danish government has set up a night watch in the foreign ministry, not to keep out the wildlings and White Walkers like the Nights Watch of Game of Thrones, but rather to monitor Donald Trumps 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.
The position is understood to have been introduced in the aftermath of the diplomatic row between Copenhagen and Washington over Greenland this spring, when the US president threatened to take control of the Arctic island. Politiken said the initiative was one of several examples of how Danish diplomacy and the countrys civil service have had to adapt to the new reality of the second Trump administration.
A source close to the foreign office told the Guardian: It is fair to say that the situation in Greenland and the time difference between Denmark and the United States was quite an important factor introducing this arrangement during the spring.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/27/denmark-sets-up-night-watch-to-monitor-trump-since-greenland-row
Lovie777
(21,271 posts)Greenland, Valenzuela, Ukraine, etc.
1920s all over again, but this time it will be the USA that starts WW3.
The 2nd Great Depression.
want to correct "Venezuela".
Polybius
(21,241 posts)Irish_Dem
(78,297 posts)GreenWave
(12,084 posts)Irish_Dem
(78,297 posts)IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,262 posts)... so present and future crimes are untraceable.
Irish_Dem
(78,297 posts)The international sex ring was far reaching to the highest levels of world leadership.
The corruption is widespread.
overleft
(398 posts)thought crime
(1,039 posts)Just Jerome
(396 posts)I assumed they (and others)were already doing this.
Embarrassing, indeed!
Baitball Blogger
(51,540 posts)Tanuki
(16,211 posts)"Greenlands Prime Minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, has rejected American attempts to meet without Denmark. This reveals that the U.S. has also tried to drive a wedge between Greenland and Denmark internally, according to an expert.
Trump administration has attempted to arrange direct meeting with Greenland without Denmark
USA has repeatedly attempted to arrange high-level political meetings with Greenland without Denmark, Politiken has learned from multiple sources.
The American inquiries, perceived by central sources as attempts to divide Denmark and Greenland, have never previously been made public. Politiken can reveal these new details based on conversations with sources in Washington, Nuuk, and Copenhagen."...
Cha
(316,063 posts)the USA by the Glazed Orange Traitor and Putin.
IronLionZion
(50,484 posts)FakeNoose
(39,688 posts)Denmark is smart to be wary though. I'll bet all the NATO countries are getting very careful about sharing information with the US.
IronLionZion
(50,484 posts)We know Russia has interest in Eastern Europe. So they may coordinate
Solly Mack
(96,156 posts)Trump is at war with the American people and almost everyone else.
roscoeroscoe
(1,795 posts)I've pulled years of night shifts for the US military, working around the clock every day of the year, along with boatloads of professionals in the State Department, intelligence, and so on.
What a difference. A peaceful country minding there own business.
thought crime
(1,039 posts)ificandream
(11,584 posts)... Denmark isn't the first one to do this. We just haven't heard about the others.
Sneederbunk
(17,048 posts)Just in case he declares war on Greenland fishermen in Truth Social.