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This is a glowing story in a magazine that the president has consistently praised – with one exception. The magazine's cover photo, Trump declared, ""could be the worst ever".

Time magazine's tribute to the president's involvement in brokering a ceasefire in Gaza, featured on its November 10 cover, was paired with a image of the president shot from a low angle and with the sun positioned behind him.

The outcome, the president asserts, is ""terrible".

"Time Magazine wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the photo may be the lowest quality in history", Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“My hair was obscured, and then there was a shape over my head that appeared as a hovering crown, but very tiny. Very odd! I have consistently disliked being captured from low angles, but this is a awful image, and it should be denounced. Why did they choose this, and why?”

Trump has made obvious his ambition to appear on Time magazine's front page and did so multiple times in the past year. The preoccupation has extended to the president's resorts – previously, the editors demanded to remove mocked up covers shown in a few of his establishments.

This issue's photograph was shot 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 Newsom took advantage of, with his communications team posting a modified photo with the offending area obscured.

{The living Israeli hostages held in Gaza have been freed under the opening part of Donald Trump's peace plan, in exchange for a Palestinian prisoner release. This agreement might turn into a major success of his next term, and it could mark a key shift for that part of the world.

Simultaneously, a defense of his portrayal has been offered by unusual quarters: the spokesperson at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs stepped in to condemn the "damaging" image choice.

It's amazing: a photograph says more about those who picked it than about the subject. Only sick people, people obsessed with malice and animosity –maybe even degenerates – could have picked this picture", Maria Zakharova shared on her social channel.

In light of the positive pictures of Biden that that magazine displayed on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the story is simply self-incriminating for the magazine", she said.

The explanation for his queries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – may be something to do with artistically representing a impression of strength according to Carly Earl, a media professional.

"The actual photo itself is professionally taken," she says. "They chose this shot because they wanted Trump to look impressive. Looking up at a person evokes a feeling of their importance and the president's visage actually looks reflective and almost a bit ethereal. It's rare you see images of the president in such a peaceful state – the photo appears gentle."

His hair looks erased because the sunlight behind him has bleached that section of the image, generating a radiant circle, she adds. And, while the article's title complements Trump’s expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the individual in question."

Nobody enjoys being photographed from below, and although all of the conceptual elements of the image are highly effective, the visual appeal are not flattering."

The publication reached out to the periodical for feedback.