Failed trade talks with China point to false promise of 'winning' a trade war

President Trump kicked off his press conference Friday morning talking about China. Although he didn’t offer much new information about the ongoing trade talks with Beijing, it’s clear that negotiations remain a stalemate.

Speaking about negotiations set to resume next week, Trump explained, “We’ve had a negotiation going on for about two days. It’s going extremely well.” Undermining that positive assessment, he added, “Who knows what that means?” only to come back with, “because it only matters if we get it done.”