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It is a favorable feature in a publication that the president has consistently praised – except for one issue. The cover picture, the president decreed, ""could be the worst ever".

Time magazine's praise to Donald Trump's part in mediating a truce for Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was paired with a photograph of the president shot from a low angle and with the sun behind his head.

The effect, he says, is "super bad".

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

“They removed my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that appeared as a hovering tiara, but an extremely small one. Truly strange! I consistently avoided taking pictures from low perspectives, but this is a super bad picture, and should be criticized. Why did they do this, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown no secret of his desire to be pictured on Time magazine's front page and accomplished it four times last year. The preoccupation has reached Trump’s golf clubs – previously, the publication requested to remove fake issues on display at several of his venues.

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

Its angle highlighted negatively his chin and neck area – an opening that California governor Newsom did not miss, with his communications team sharing an altered image with the criticized section obscured.

{The Israeli captives held in Gaza have been liberated under the initial stage of Donald Trump's peace plan, in exchange for a Palestinian prisoner release. The arrangement might turn into a signature achievement of Trump's second term, and it may represent a strategic turning point for that part of the world.

Meanwhile, a defence of the president’s appearance has been offered by a surprising origin: the communications chief at the Russian foreign ministry stepped in to denounce the "self-incriminating" image choice.

It's remarkable: a image exposes those who chose it than about the subject. Only sick people, people driven by hatred and hatred –maybe even degenerates – could have selected such an image", Maria Zakharova shared on the messaging platform.

Considering the favorable images of Biden that that magazine featured on the front, despite his physical infirmity, the story is simply self-incriminating for the publication", she noted.

The explanation for Trump’s questions – what did the editors intend, and why? – might involve artistically representing a feeling of authority according to an imaging expert, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The photograph technically is well-executed," she says. "They selected this photo because they wanted the president to look impressive. Gazing upward evokes a feeling of their majesty and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost slightly angelic. It’s not often you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the photo appears gentle."

His hair appears to “disappear” because the sunlight behind him has overexposed that part of the image, producing a glowing aura, she explains. Although the story’s headline complements his facial expression 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 highly effective, the appearance are not complimentary."

The publication contacted the magazine for a statement.