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This is a favorable article in a publication that the president has frequently admired – with one exception. The cover picture, he stated, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time magazine's tribute to Donald Trump's part in facilitating a Gaza ceasefire, featured on its November 10 cover, was presented alongside a photo of Trump captured from underneath and with the sun shining from the back.

The result, he says, is ""extremely poor".

"Time wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the image may be the lowest quality in history", he shared on Truth Social.

“They removed my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that resembled a hovering tiara, but an very tiny one. Really weird! I always disliked taking pictures from low perspectives, but this is a terrible picture, and should be criticized. What is their intention, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown clear his wish to feature on Time’s cover and did so on four occasions in the previous year. This fixation has reached the president's resorts – years ago, the publication requested to remove fake issues shown in a few of his establishments.

This issue's photograph was shot by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the White House on 5 October.

Its angle did no favours for Trump’s chin and neck – an opportunity that the governor of California Gavin Newsom seized, with the governor's office tweeting a version with the problematic part blurred.

{The Israeli captives detained in Gaza have been freed under the first phase of the president's diplomatic initiative, in exchange for a Palestinian prisoner release. The arrangement could be a major success of his next term, and it might signify a key shift for that part of the world.

At the same time, a defence of Trump's image has been offered by a surprising origin: the spokesperson at Moscow's diplomatic office stepped in to condemn the "self-incriminating" photo selection.

"It’s astonishing: a photograph exposes those who chose it than about the person in it. Just unwell persons, people obsessed with malice and animosity –maybe even degenerates – could have chosen such a photo", Maria Zakharova posted on the messaging platform.

Considering the favorable images of Biden that the same publication featured on the front, even with his age-related challenges, the situation is self-revealing for the publication", she added.

The response to Trump’s questions – what did the editors intend, and why? – could be related to artistically representing a feeling of authority stated by Carly Earl, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The image itself is well-executed," she says. "They picked this image because they wanted trump to look impressive. Gazing upward gives a sense of their grandeur and the president's visage actually looks thoughtful and almost slightly angelic. It’s not often you see pictures of him in such a calm instance – the photo appears gentle."

The president's hair appears to “disappear” because the light from behind has overexposed that part of the image, generating a radiant circle, she explains. Although the article's title marries well with Trump’s expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the person photographed."

Nobody enjoys being photographed from below, and while all of the artistic aspects of the image are very strong, the visual appeal are unflattering."

The news outlet reached out to Time magazine for feedback.