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It is a glowing feature in a magazine that the president has consistently praised – except for one issue. The cover picture, he stated, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time magazine's paean to Donald Trump's part in facilitating a Gaza ceasefire, leading its 10 November issue, was accompanied by a image of Trump shot from a low angle while the sun shining from the back.

The effect, he says, is ""terrible".

"Time wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the image may be the most awful ever", he shared on his preferred network.

“They eliminated my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that resembled a suspended coronet, but an extremely small one. Truly strange! I consistently avoided taking pictures from low perspectives, but this is a terrible picture, and should be criticized. What is their intention, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown clear his wish to feature on Time’s cover and accomplished it on four occasions in the previous year. The obsession has reached the president's resorts – in 2017, the editors demanded to remove fabricated front pages on display at some of his properties.

The latest edition’s photo was captured by a photographer for a news agency at the White House on the fifth of October.

The shot's viewpoint highlighted negatively his chin and neck area – an opportunity that the governor of California Gavin Newsom seized, with his press office posting a modified photo with the problematic part obscured.

{The Israeli captives detained in Gaza have been released under the initial stage of Trump's ceasefire agreement, in exchange for a Palestinian prisoner release. The arrangement could be a defining accomplishment of the president's renewed tenure, and it might signify a key shift for the region.

Simultaneously, a support for the president’s appearance has been offered by unusual quarters: the communications chief at Moscow's diplomatic office stepped in to criticise the "self-incriminating" photo selection.

It's amazing: a image exposes those who selected it than about the subject. Only disturbed individuals, people filled with spite and resentment –maybe even degenerates – could have picked this picture", she posted on her social channel.

Considering the favorable images of President Biden that the same publication displayed on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the story is simply self-incriminating for the publication", she added.

The response to Trump’s questions – why did they choose this, and why? – might involve artistically representing a sense of power according to an imaging expert, a media professional.

The image itself technically is good," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted the president to look commanding. Looking up at a person gives a sense of their grandeur and the president's visage actually looks reflective and almost somewhat divine. It’s not often you see images of the president in such a peaceful state – the image has a softness to it."

His hair appears to “disappear” because the rear illumination has bleached that section of the image, creating a halo effect, she says. Although the article's title complements his facial expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the person photographed."

Few people appreciate being photographed from below, and although all of the conceptual elements of the image are quite powerful, the aesthetics are unflattering."

The news outlet contacted the magazine for a statement.