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This is a favorable story in a magazine that Donald Trump has long exalted – with one exception. The cover picture, the president decreed, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time magazine's tribute to the president's involvement in mediating a ceasefire in Gaza, leading its 10 November issue, was presented alongside a image of the president shot from a low angle while the sun behind his head.

The effect, he says, is ""extremely poor".

"Time wrote a relatively good story about me, but the image may be the lowest quality in history", Trump wrote on his preferred network.

“They eliminated my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that appeared as a hovering tiara, but an very tiny one. Really weird! I consistently avoided taking pictures from below viewpoints, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What is their intention, and why?”

The president has expressed obvious his ambition to feature on Time’s cover and accomplished it on four occasions in the previous year. The obsession has reached Trump’s golf clubs – previously, the publication requested to remove fake issues exhibited in some of his properties.

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

The perspective did no favours for his chin and neck area – an opportunity that California governor Gavin Newsom took advantage of, with the governor's office tweeting a version with the problematic part pixelated.

{The hostages from Israel in Gaza have been released under the initial stage of Donald Trump's peace plan, in exchange for a release of Palestinian detainees. The arrangement might turn into a signature achievement of his next term, and it may represent a pivotal moment for the Middle East.

At the same time, a support for his portrayal has come from unusual quarters: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs intervened to denounce the "self-incriminating" image choice.

"It’s astonishing: a photo reveals far more about those who selected it than about the individual pictured. Just unwell persons, people obsessed with malice and animosity –perhaps even perverts – could have chosen such a photo", the official posted on the messaging platform.

Considering the favorable images of President Biden that the same publication featured on the front, even with his age-related challenges, the case is self-damaging for Time", she noted.

The explanation for Trump’s questions – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – might involve artistically representing a impression of strength according to a picture editor, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The image itself is professionally taken," she notes. "They picked this image because they wanted the president to look impressive. Gazing upward evokes a feeling of their majesty and Trump’s face actually looks thoughtful and almost slightly angelic. It's uncommon you see images of the president in such a serene moment – the image has a softness to it."

The president's hair appears to “disappear” because the light from behind has overexposed that part of the image, creating a halo effect, she says. And, while the article's title complements the president's look in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the person photographed."

Few people appreciate being photographed from below, and even if all of the artistic aspects of the image are highly effective, the appearance are not complimentary."

The publication reached out to the periodical for a statement.