Update: In another of what we imagine could be daily updates on the negotiations over the border wall funding that Trump is demanding, the president warned that Republican negotiators on the 17-lawmaker committee are "wasting their time" because the Democrats "are not going to give money to build the...wall."

As talks in Washington between a delegation of senior US officials led by Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and a delegation from Beijing led by Vice Premier Liu He enter their second day, President Trump conclusively ruled out the possibility that a deal could be announced by the end of the week in a series of early morning tweets.

The president said that while the negotiations are going "very well," he said that "no final deal will be made until my friend President Xi, and I, meet in the near future to discuss and agree on some of the long standing and more difficult points."