KEY POINTS
  • President Donald Trump said Thursday the U.S. will probably know in the next three or four weeks about a possible trade deal with China.
  • "If that one gets done, it will be something that people will be talking about for a long time," Trump said in remarks during a St. Patrick's Day reception from the White House's East Room.
President Donald Trump listens to a question as he meets with former hostage Danny Burch, an oil engineer who was taken hostage in Yemen in September 2017, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, March 6, 2019.

President Donald Trump said Thursday the U.S. will probably know in the next three or four weeks about a possible trade deal with China.

"We'll have news on China. Probably one way or the other, we're going to know over the next three to four weeks," Trump said during a St. Patrick's Day reception from the White House's East Room.