President Donald Trump said early Tuesday morning that he wants “a real end” to the conflict between Israel and Iran, adding that a mere ceasefire isn’t enough.

Trump was asked about the ongoing fight in the Middle East on Air Force One as he returned to Washington, D.C., from the G7 Conference in Canada. Trump left the conference early on Monday over developments in the conflict as Israel continued to defend its citizens from Iranian missile barrages.

“What specifically is better than a ceasefire? What are you looking for here?” a reporter asked Trump.

“A real end, not a ceasefire,” the president replied. “An end.”

“So something that will be permanent?”

“Yeah, or giving up entirely. That’s okay too,” Trump added. “A complete give-up. That’s possible.”

REPORTER: "What are you looking for here?"@POTUS: "An end. A real end. Not a ceasefire — an end." pic.twitter.com/EESQ7zzhw1

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The president continued to urge Iran to seek out a deal on Monday and told people to “immediately evacuate Tehran!”

“Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign,” said Trump on Truth Social. “What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!”

Trump suggested earlier on Monday that Iran had reached out to negotiate an end to the conflict. Trump had imposed a 60-day deadline for Iran to negotiate a nuclear agreement with the United States that had elapsed before Israel launched its attack last week.

“They’d like to talk, but they should have done that before,” the president told reporters at the G7 summit. “I had 60 days, and they had 60 days. On the 61st day, I said, ‘We don’t have a deal.’ They have to make a deal, and it’s painful for both parties. But I’d say Iran is not winning this war, and they should talk, and they should talk immediately, before it’s too late.”

Israel continues to exert air dominance over Iran, targeting nuclear facilities, military leaders, and Iranian state media. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the conflict would end if Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei were killed.

“We’ve had half a century of conflict spread by this regime that terrorizes everyone in the Middle East; has bombed the Aramco oil fields in Saudi Arabia; is spreading terrorism and subversion and sabotage everywhere,” Netanyahu said in an interview with ABC News. “The ‘forever war’ is what Iran wants, and they’re bringing us to the brink of nuclear war. In fact, what Israel is doing is preventing this, bringing an end to this aggression, and we can only do so by standing up to the forces of evil.”

President Donald Trump spent part of his Monday trolling Tucker Carlson after the former Fox News host questioned the president’s handling of Iran and conflict in the Middle East.

Last week in a newsletter, Carlson accused Trump of being “complicit” in Israel’s strikes against Iran that sparked the current days-long exchange between the two Middle Eastern powers. The newsletter arrived in the inboxes of Carlson’s readers under the headline: “This Could Be the Final Newsletter Before All-Out War.”

“Earlier this week, unnamed Washington sources expressed concern over Israel’s ability to fend off Iran’s retaliation, which would inevitably lead to Benjamin Netanyahu ordering the American military to step in and fight on his country’s behalf,” Carlson wrote. “On Thursday, Iran’s president threatened to ‘destroy’ any country that eliminates his government’s nuclear facilities. Now, the world will learn what that looks like.”

Trump responded to Carlson’s criticisms while attending the Group of Seven Summit in Canada.

“Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that, ‘IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!’” Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday evening.

Earlier in the day, Trump dismissed a question from a reporter on Carlson’s concerns.

“I don’t know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him go get a television network and say it so that people listen,” said Trump, appearing to jab at Carlson over his exit from Fox News. Carlson now runs his own media business, the Tucker Carlson Network, and hosts a popular interview podcast.

Trump’s support for Israel and his Middle East policy appears to have alienated Carlson, as well as other isolationist-minded supporters. The comic Dave Smith recently called for Trump’s impeachment over the president’s handling of Iran.

“I supported him this last year. I apologize for doing so. It was a bad calculation. At the time, it seemed like the right one, but he should be impeached and removed for this one,” Smith said on a recent episode of “Breaking Points.” “All of his supporters should turn on him. It’s the absolute betrayal of everything that he ran and campaigned on and everything that he stood for.”