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It is a glowing story in a magazine that the president has long exalted – but for one catch. The cover picture, the president decreed, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time's tribute to Donald Trump's part in brokering a truce for Gaza, leading its 10 November issue, was paired with a photograph of the president taken from below and with the sun positioned behind him.

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

"Time wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the image may be the lowest quality in history", he shared on his social media platform.

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a hovering tiara, but an very tiny one. Truly strange! I consistently avoided taking pictures from low perspectives, but this is a terrible picture, and deserves to be called out. What is their intention, and why?”

Trump has made clear his wish to be pictured on Time magazine's front page and achieved this multiple times in the past year. The preoccupation has reached his golf courses – in 2017, the publication requested to remove fabricated front pages exhibited in some of his properties.

The most recent cover image was captured by a photographer for Bloomberg at the presidential residence on 5 October.

The perspective did no favours for the president's jawline and throat – an opening that the governor of California Newsom did not miss, with the governor's office posting a modified photo with the criticized section obscured.

{The Israeli captives detained in Gaza have been freed under the opening part of Donald Trump's peace plan, in exchange for a release of Palestinian detainees. The deal might turn into a major success of his next term, and it could mark a strategic turning point for the Middle East.

Simultaneously, a support for his portrayal has emerged from a surprising origin: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs came forward to denounce the "self-incriminating" image choice.

It's amazing: a image reveals far more about those who selected it than about the person in it. Only sick people, people obsessed with malice and resentment –perhaps even perverts – could have chosen such a photo", she wrote on the messaging platform.

Considering the favorable images of President Biden that the periodical used on the cover, despite his physical infirmity, the story is simply self-incriminating for Time", she said.

The response to the president's inquiries – why did they choose this, and why? – might involve innovatively depicting a impression of strength according to a picture editor, a media professional.

"The actual photo itself is professionally taken," she notes. "They chose this shot because they wanted the president to look commanding. Staring up at someone evokes a feeling of their grandeur and Trump’s face actually looks reflective and almost somewhat divine. It’s not often you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the photo appears gentle."

His hair looks erased because the light from behind has bleached that section of the image, generating a radiant circle, she says. And, while the feature's heading marries well with Trump’s expression in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the individual in question."

Nobody enjoys being photographed from below, and even if all of the thematic components of the image are quite powerful, the visual appeal are unflattering."

The news outlet reached out to the periodical for feedback.