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This is a favorable feature in a periodical that Trump has long exalted – except for one issue. The magazine's cover photo, he stated, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time magazine's paean to Donald Trump's part in facilitating a Gaza ceasefire, headlining its early November edition, was paired with a photograph of Trump taken from below while the sun behind his head.

The outcome, the president asserts, is "super bad".

"Time wrote a relatively good story about me, but the image may be the most awful ever", Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“They eliminated my hair, and then had a shape drifting on top of my head that appeared as a floating crown, but an very tiny one. Truly strange! I consistently avoided taking pictures from low perspectives, but this is a extremely poor picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown obvious his ambition to be pictured on the cover of Time and did so multiple times in the past year. The preoccupation has reached Trump’s golf clubs – in 2017, the editors demanded to remove fake issues exhibited in a few of his establishments.

The latest edition’s photo was shot by a photographer for Bloomberg at the White House on October 5.

The perspective highlighted negatively the president's jawline and throat – an opening that the governor of California Gavin Newsom did not miss, with the governor's office posting a modified photo with the criticized section pixelated.

{The living Israeli hostages detained in Gaza have been freed under the opening part of Trump's ceasefire agreement, in exchange for a release of Palestinian detainees. The deal could be a defining accomplishment of the president's renewed tenure, and it might signify a pivotal moment for that part of the world.

Simultaneously, a defence of Trump's image has come from a surprising origin: the spokesperson at the Russian foreign ministry came forward to criticise the "damaging" photo selection.

It's remarkable: a image says more about those who selected it than about the subject. Only disturbed individuals, people filled with spite and animosity –maybe even degenerates – could have chosen such a photo", she shared on Telegram.

In light of the positive pictures of Biden that the periodical featured on the front, despite his physical infirmity, the story is simply self-incriminating for Time", she said.

The response to the president's inquiries – what did the editors intend, and why? – might involve creatively capturing a impression of strength stated by an imaging expert, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The image itself is well-executed," she notes. "They picked this image because they wanted Trump to look heroic. Gazing upward creates an impression of their majesty and his expression actually looks thoughtful and almost slightly angelic. It’s not often you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the picture feels tender."

Trump’s hair appears to “disappear” 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 the president's look in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the individual in question."

Few people appreciate being captured from low angles, and even if all of the thematic components of the image are quite powerful, the visual appeal are unflattering."

The publication approached Time magazine for comment.