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This is a positive article in a magazine that the president has consistently praised – with one exception. The cover picture, the president decreed, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time's tribute to Donald Trump's part in mediating a truce for Gaza, featured on its November 10 cover, was paired with a photo of Trump taken from below and with the sun behind his head.

The result, the president asserts, is ""extremely poor".

"Time wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the picture may be the lowest quality in history", he shared on Truth Social.

“My hair was erased, and then there was something floating my head that looked like a suspended diadem, but extremely small. Really weird! I have never liked being photographed from below, but this is a super bad image, and it merits criticism. Why did they choose this, and why?”

Trump has made no secret of his desire to appear on the cover of Time and accomplished it four times last year. The preoccupation has extended to Trump’s golf clubs – in 2017, the editors demanded to remove fabricated front pages shown in several of his venues.

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

The perspective highlighted negatively Trump’s chin and neck – an opportunity that California governor Gavin Newsom seized, with his communications team tweeting a version with the offending area pixelated.

{The living Israeli hostages held in Gaza have been liberated under the opening part of Donald Trump's peace plan, alongside a release of Palestinian detainees. 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.

Simultaneously, a defense of his portrayal has emerged from unusual quarters: the spokesperson at Moscow's diplomatic office came forward to criticise the "self-incriminating" picture decision.

It's amazing: a image reveals far more about those who picked it than about the person in it. Only sick people, people obsessed with malice and hatred –possibly even deviants – could have selected such an image", Maria Zakharova shared on her social channel.

Considering the favorable images of President Biden that the periodical displayed on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the case is self-damaging for Time", she noted.

The answer to Trump’s questions – what did the editors intend, and why? – could be related to innovatively depicting a sense of power says a picture editor, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The image itself is professionally taken," she says. "They chose this shot because they wanted Trump to look heroic. Staring up at someone gives a sense of their importance and Trump’s face actually looks contemplative and almost somewhat divine. It’s not often you see images of the president in such a peaceful state – the picture feels tender."

The president's hair looks erased because the light from behind has overexposed that part of the image, generating a radiant circle, she adds. Even though the feature's heading marries well with Trump’s expression in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the individual in question."

"No one likes being captured from low angles, and while all of the conceptual elements of the image are very strong, the aesthetics are unflattering."

The publication contacted the magazine for comment.