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It is a favorable article in a publication that the president has long exalted – except for one issue. The front-page image, Trump declared, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time magazine's praise to the president's involvement in facilitating a Gaza ceasefire, featured on its November 10 cover, was presented alongside a photo of Trump shot from a low angle while the sun positioned behind him.

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

"Time wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the picture may be the most awful ever", the president posted on Truth Social.

“My hair was obscured, and then there was an object above my head that seemed like a floating crown, but very tiny. Very odd! I have always hated being photographed from below, but this is a super bad image, and it deserves to be called out. Why did they choose this, and why?”

Trump has made obvious his ambition to appear on Time’s cover and achieved this on four occasions in the previous year. The obsession has reached the president's resorts – previously, the editors demanded to remove fake issues shown in several of his venues.

This issue's photograph was captured by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the presidential residence on the fifth of October.

The perspective was unflattering to his chin and neck area – an opening that California governor Gavin Newsom seized, with his press office tweeting a version with the offending area obscured.

{The hostages from Israel in Gaza have been freed under the initial stage of Trump's ceasefire agreement, in exchange for a freeing of Palestinian inmates. This agreement may become a defining accomplishment of the president's renewed tenure, and it could mark a pivotal moment for the Middle East.

Simultaneously, a defense of the president’s appearance has emerged from a surprising origin: the spokesperson at Moscow's diplomatic office intervened to denounce the "revealing" picture decision.

It's remarkable: a photo reveals far more about those who picked it than about the subject. Only disturbed individuals, people filled with spite and animosity –possibly even deviants – could have selected such an image", she posted on Telegram.

Considering the favorable images of President Biden that that magazine used on the cover, notwithstanding his health issues, the story is simply self-incriminating for Time", she noted.

The response to his queries – why did they choose this, and why? – might involve innovatively depicting a impression of strength according to a picture editor, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The photograph technically technically is good," she notes. "They chose this shot because they wanted Trump to look commanding. Staring up at someone gives a sense of their importance and the president's visage actually looks thoughtful and almost somewhat divine. It's rare you see images of the president in such a calm instance – the photo appears gentle."

Trump’s hair appears to “disappear” because the light from behind has bleached that section of the image, generating a radiant circle, she explains. Although the feature's heading pairs nicely with his facial expression in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the person photographed."

"No one likes being photographed from below, and even if all of the conceptual elements of the image are very strong, the aesthetics are unflattering."

The publication reached out to the periodical for a statement.