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It is a positive story in a magazine that Donald Trump has consistently praised – except for one issue. The magazine's cover photo, Trump declared, ""could be the worst ever".

Time's tribute to Trump's role in brokering a Gaza ceasefire, leading its 10 November issue, was accompanied by a image of Trump taken from below while the sun shining from the back.

The outcome, the president asserts, is ""extremely poor".

"The publication wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the image may be the lowest quality in history", he shared on his social media platform.

“They removed my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that resembled a hovering tiara, but an remarkably little one. Quite bizarre! I never liked taking pictures from below viewpoints, but this is a extremely poor picture, and merits public condemnation. What is their intention, and why?”

The president has expressed clear his wish to appear on Time’s cover and achieved this multiple times in the past year. This fixation has extended to the president's resorts – previously, the magazine asked him to remove fake issues shown in a few of his establishments.

This issue's photograph was captured by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the White House on the fifth of October.

The shot's viewpoint was unflattering to his chin and neck area – an opportunity that California governor Newsom did not miss, with his communications team posting a modified photo with the problematic part pixelated.

{The living Israeli hostages detained in Gaza have been freed under the opening part of Trump's ceasefire agreement, in exchange for a freeing of Palestinian inmates. This agreement may become a defining accomplishment of Trump's second term, and it could mark a key shift for that part of the world.

At the same time, a support for the president’s appearance has emerged from unusual quarters: the communications chief at the Russian foreign ministry stepped in to denounce the "damaging" image choice.

It's amazing: a photograph exposes those who chose it than about the person in it. Only sick people, people obsessed with malice and animosity –possibly even deviants – could have chosen such a photo", the official shared on the messaging platform.

"And given the complimentary photos of President Biden that the same publication used on the cover, notwithstanding his health issues, the situation is self-revealing for the publication", she said.

The response to Trump’s questions – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – may be something to do with artistically representing a impression of strength stated by an imaging expert, an Australian publication's photo editor.

"The actual photo itself technically is good," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted the president to look heroic. Looking up at a person evokes a feeling of their importance and his expression actually looks contemplative and almost a bit ethereal. It’s not often you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the photo appears gentle."

Trump’s hair looks erased because the rear illumination has overexposed that part of the image, creating a halo effect, she adds. Although the story’s headline marries well with the president's look in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the person photographed."

Nobody enjoys being photographed from below, and although all of the thematic components of the image are quite powerful, the aesthetics are not complimentary."

The news outlet reached out to the periodical for feedback.