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It is a glowing article in a magazine that the president has long exalted – with one exception. The magazine's cover photo, the president decreed, ""could be the worst ever".

Time's paean to Donald Trump's part in brokering a Gaza ceasefire, leading its 10 November issue, was accompanied by a image of the president shot from a low angle and with the sun behind his head.

The effect, Trump claims, is "super bad".

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

“My hair was erased, and then there was something floating my head that seemed like a hovering crown, but extremely small. Truly strange! I have never liked being shot from underneath, but this is a awful image, and it should be denounced. What are they doing, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown obvious his ambition to feature on the cover of Time and accomplished it four times last year. The preoccupation has made it as far as the president's resorts – in 2017, the editors demanded to remove mocked up covers exhibited in a few of his establishments.

This issue's photograph was taken by a photographer for Bloomberg at the presidential residence on the fifth of October.

Its angle did no favours for his chin and neck area – an opening that the governor of California Gavin Newsom did not miss, with his communications team tweeting a version with the problematic part pixelated.

{The Israeli captives detained in Gaza have been freed under the initial stage of Donald Trump's peace plan, alongside a freeing of Palestinian inmates. This agreement could be a signature achievement of the president's renewed tenure, and it may represent a key shift for that part of the world.

Meanwhile, a defence of his portrayal has come from unusual quarters: the communications chief at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs came forward to condemn the "revealing" image choice.

It's remarkable: a photograph exposes those who chose it than about the subject. Just unwell persons, people driven by hatred and animosity –perhaps even perverts – could have selected such an image", the official shared on the messaging platform.

In light of the positive pictures of President Biden that the periodical featured on the front, even with his age-related challenges, the story is simply self-incriminating for Time", she said.

The explanation for his queries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – could be related to artistically representing a impression of strength stated by a picture editor, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The photograph technically is professionally taken," she notes. "They selected this photo because they wanted Trump to look heroic. Gazing upward creates an impression of their majesty and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost slightly angelic. It's rare you see pictures of him in such a serene moment – the photo appears gentle."

Trump’s hair seems to vanish because the sunlight behind him has bleached that section of the image, generating a radiant circle, she says. Even though the story’s headline marries well with the president's look in the image, "you can’t always please the subject matter."

Nobody enjoys being shot from underneath, and while all of the thematic components of the image are very strong, the visual appeal are not complimentary."

The publication reached out to the periodical for comment.