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It is a glowing story in a magazine that the president has consistently praised – but for one catch. The cover picture, the president decreed, ""could be the worst ever".

Time's praise to the president's involvement in brokering a ceasefire in Gaza, leading its 10 November issue, was presented alongside a photograph of Trump captured from underneath while the sun behind his head.

The effect, Trump claims, is ""extremely poor".

"Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the photo may be the most awful ever", Trump wrote on his social media platform.

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had a shape drifting on top of my head that resembled a suspended coronet, but an very tiny one. Quite bizarre! I always disliked taking pictures from low perspectives, but this is a extremely poor picture, and should be criticized. Why did they do this, and why?”

The president has expressed clear his wish to appear on Time magazine's front page and accomplished it four times last year. This fixation has made it as far as Trump’s golf clubs – in 2017, the editors demanded to remove mocked up covers exhibited in some of his properties.

The most recent cover image was captured by a photographer for a news agency at the White House on October 5.

The perspective was unflattering to Trump’s chin and neck – an opportunity that California governor Gavin Newsom seized, with the governor's office posting a modified photo with the offending area pixelated.

{The Israeli captives held in Gaza have been freed under the first phase of the president's diplomatic initiative, together with a Palestinian prisoner release. The arrangement could be a signature achievement of the president's renewed tenure, and it may represent a key shift for the Middle East.

At the same time, a support for Trump's image has come from a surprising origin: the spokesperson at Moscow's diplomatic office stepped in to condemn the "revealing" image choice.

It's amazing: a photograph exposes those who chose it than about the subject. Just unwell persons, people filled with spite and resentment –possibly even deviants – could have selected such an image", she wrote on Telegram.

In light of the positive pictures of President Biden that the periodical featured on the front, notwithstanding his health issues, the story is simply self-incriminating for Time", she noted.

The explanation for Trump’s questions – what did the editors intend, and why? – might involve innovatively depicting a impression of strength according to a picture editor, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The photograph technically technically is good," she notes. "They picked this image because they wanted trump to look commanding. Staring up at someone evokes a feeling of their grandeur and Trump’s face actually looks contemplative and almost slightly angelic. It's rare you see pictures of him in such a peaceful state – the photo appears gentle."

His hair seems to vanish because the light from behind has bleached that section of the image, producing a glowing aura, she explains. And, while the article's title pairs nicely with his facial expression in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the individual in question."

Few people appreciate being shot from underneath, and although all of the conceptual elements of the image are highly effective, the appearance are not flattering."

The news outlet reached out to the periodical for a statement.