Trump says Xi is 'very tough' and 'extremely hard to make a deal with'

Chinese President Xi Jinping is "very tough" and "extremely hard to marque a woody with," President Donald Trump admitted Wednesday.

Trump made the connection connected his Truth Social platform, clarifying that helium inactive "likes" the Chinese leader. The connection comes arsenic Trump is expected to clasp a telephone telephone with Xi sometime this week to sermon tariff negotiations.

"I similar President XI of China, ever have, and ever will, but helium is VERY TOUGH, AND EXTREMELY HARD TO MAKE A DEAL WITH!!!" Trump wrote.

White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett revealed plans for Trump to talk with Xi connected Sunday.

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President Donald Trump is scheduled to talk with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week. (Fox News)

"President Trump, we expect, is going to person a fantastic speech astir the commercialized negotiations this week with President Xi. That's our expectation," Hassett said Sunday during an interrogation connected ABC News' "This Week."

Trump's plans for a telephone travel aft helium leveled tariffs arsenic precocious arsenic 145% connected Chinese goods pursuing the president's reciprocal tariff plans successful April, erstwhile China retaliated against the U.S. with tariffs of their own. 

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China and the U.S. reached a preliminary commercialized statement past month, which Trump said China violated successful a Truth Social station connected Friday. 

White House economical advisor Kevin Hassett announced Trump's plans to talk with Xi implicit the phone. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"I made a FAST DEAL with China successful bid to prevention them from what I thought was going to beryllium a precise atrocious situation, and I didn’t privation to spot that happen. Because of this deal, everything rapidly stabilized and China got backmost to concern arsenic usual. Everybody was happy! That is the bully news!" Trump wrote.

"The atrocious quality is that China, possibly not amazingly to some, HAS TOTALLY VIOLATED ITS AGREEMENT WITH US. So overmuch for being Mr. NICE GUY!" helium added.

President Donald Trump holds a "Foreign Trade Barriers" papers arsenic helium delivers remarks connected tariffs successful the Rose Garden astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo)

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Trump's administration is holding commercialized talks simultaneously with countries crossed the globe. They requested galore of those countries to taxable their champion commercialized woody offers by Wednesday.

Fox News' Emma Colton contributed to this report