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This is a favorable article in a periodical that Trump has long exalted – with one exception. The magazine's cover photo, the president decreed, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time magazine's praise to the president's involvement in brokering a truce for Gaza, leading its 10 November issue, was paired with a photo of the president taken from below while the sun positioned behind him.

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

"Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the lowest quality in history", the president posted on Truth Social.

“My hair was erased, and then there was a shape over my head that looked like a hovering crown, but extremely small. Very odd! I have consistently disliked being shot from underneath, but this is a extremely poor image, and it merits criticism. Why did they choose this, and why?”

The president has expressed no secret of his desire to be pictured on Time’s cover and accomplished it on four occasions in the previous year. The preoccupation has reached Trump’s golf clubs – previously, the publication requested to remove mocked up covers on display at a few of his establishments.

The most recent cover image was captured by a photographer for Bloomberg at the White House on the fifth of October.

The shot's viewpoint did no favours for his chin and neck area – a chance that the governor of California Gavin Newsom did not miss, with his press office posting a modified photo with the criticized section pixelated.

{The Israeli captives detained in Gaza have been freed under the first phase of Donald Trump's peace plan, in exchange for a release of Palestinian detainees. The arrangement might turn into a major success of the president's renewed tenure, and it might signify a strategic turning point for that part of the world.

Simultaneously, a support for his portrayal has emerged from unusual quarters: the spokesperson at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs stepped in to criticise the "revealing" photo selection.

It's amazing: a photo says more about those who picked it than about the subject. Only disturbed individuals, people driven by hatred and hatred –perhaps even perverts – could have picked this picture", Maria Zakharova posted on her social channel.

In light of the positive pictures of Biden that the periodical displayed on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the situation is self-revealing for Time", she said.

The answer to the president's inquiries – what did the editors intend, and why? – could be related to innovatively depicting a impression of strength stated by an imaging expert, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The photograph technically is well-executed," she explains. "They picked this image because they wanted Trump to look heroic. Looking up at a person evokes a feeling of their grandeur and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost somewhat divine. It's rare you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the image has a softness to it."

Trump’s hair appears to “disappear” because the rear illumination has overexposed that part of the image, generating a radiant circle, she explains. Even though the article's title pairs nicely with the president's look in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the individual in question."

"No one likes being shot from underneath, and although all of the artistic aspects of the image are quite powerful, the appearance are unflattering."

The publication contacted the periodical for comment.