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Taking action inspired by fictional watches, the Danish foreign ministry has created a nighttime monitoring unit—not to fend off fantasy foes, but to monitor Donald Trump while Copenhagen is asleep.

This night monitoring begins at 5 p.m. in Denmark daily and concludes with a summary produced at 7am, which is then circulated throughout the Danish government and concerned offices detailing statements made and events that occurred.

This position is understood to have been established in the wake of the diplomatic row involving Copenhagen and the US over Greenland this spring, when the US president threatened taking control of the resource-rich territory.

Analysts note that this initiative is one of several examples of how Danish diplomacy and its civil service have had to adapt to the changed landscape of the Trump's current term.

An insider familiar with the ministry stated, “It's accurate to say that the circumstances in the region and the time zone gap separating Denmark and the United States were quite an important factor introducing this system in the spring.”

Instead of everybody needing to immediately check their phones to catch up on news from the United States, the foreign office said it had undertaken a collective effort to remain informed on the president's activities.

Jacob Kaarsbo, a former senior analyst at the Danish defence intelligence agency, stated that this development showed, “as we have always known,” that the notion of the United States as Denmark’s largest and most important partner was dead. “Partnerships are founded on common values and a mutual view of threats,” he said. “Trump shares neither of those with Denmark and it can be said he doesn't share it with the majority of Europe.”