ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — U.S. President Donald Trump wants the intensifying conflict between Israel and Iran to end in a “complete give-up” by Tehran on nuclear weapons, rejecting suggestions that he might be eager to negotiate a temporary ceasefire in the Middle East.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One after abruptly cutting short his time at the G7 summit in Canada on Monday, Trump praised the Israeli offensive and insisted that Iran’s nuclear capabilities needed to be wiped out. 

“A complete give-up, it’s possible,” Trump said of his preferred end to the fighting, adding he wanted “not a ceasefire, a real end” to the conflict. “I’m not too much in a mood to negotiate.”

Trump’s remarks came shortly after he blasted French President Emmanuel Macron in a Truth Social post for suggesting that he was returning to Washington early to try to finalize a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. 

The president’s comments also underscored his hardening support for Israel’s extended assault, despite his past anti-war rhetoric and a growing backlash within his MAGA base over the U.S. involvement in the Middle East. 

“I’m not looking for a ceasefire, we’re looking at better than a ceasefire,” Trump said, reiterating his criticism of Macron as a “nice guy” who “doesn’t get it right too often.”

Still, Trump offered few specifics about what that end might look like. He suggested that his approach would be determined by the events of the next couple days. 

Trump planned to convene his advisers in the Situation Room early Tuesday, he said, and confirmed that he has considered dispatching Vice President JD Vance and Steve Witkoff, his Middle East envoy, to meet with Iranian officials. 

He also continued to criticize Iran for failing to negotiate a nuclear deal in time to stave off the Israeli attack. 

“I hope their program’s going to be wiped out,” he said . “They should’ve done the deal. Their cities have been blown to pieces and they’ve lost a lot of people.”

As for why he opted to cut short his trip to the G7 summit, Trump said he preferred “being on the scene” as the U.S. monitors the escalating conflict and that he had already accomplished what he set out to do at the gathering of world economic powers. 

During his roughly 24 hours in Canada, Trump met with several other leaders, including Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. But he emerged with only a single major announcement: A proclamation on the implementation of a U.S.-U.K. trade deal that was reached a month ago. 

Trump downplayed any urgency to strike additional trade deals before his self-imposed July 8 deadline for reapplying additional “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of countries. 

“We’re actually finished with every deal if you think about it because all I have to do is say this is what you’re going to pay,” he said. 

Trump did contribute to one show of solidarity among a G7 that has increasingly struggled to find common ground, signing a joint statement on the Israel-Iran conflict after initially refusing to endorse it. 

But asked why the U.S.’s position on the statement had changed, Trump said he hadn’t been closely involved — and had yet to even see the final version. 

“I haven’t seen the statement yet, but I authorized them to say certain things,” he said. “I don’t know whether or not they said them correctly. But I think they probably did.”