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It is a favorable feature in a periodical that Trump has long exalted – but for one catch. The cover picture, he stated, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time magazine's paean to Trump's role in facilitating a truce for Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was accompanied by a photograph of Trump shot from a low angle while the sun positioned behind him.

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

"Time wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time", the president posted on his preferred network.

“My hair was erased, and then there was something floating my head that seemed like a hovering crown, but extremely small. Truly strange! I have always hated being shot from underneath, but this is a extremely poor image, and it should be denounced. What is their goal, and why?”

Trump has made clear his wish to be pictured on the cover of Time and did so on four occasions in the previous year. The preoccupation has reached Trump’s golf clubs – previously, the magazine asked him to remove fabricated front pages exhibited in some of his properties.

This issue's photograph was captured by a photographer for Bloomberg at the presidential residence on October 5.

The perspective did no favours for Trump’s chin and neck – a chance that California governor Newsom did not miss, with his press office tweeting a version with the problematic part pixelated.

{The living Israeli hostages detained in Gaza have been liberated under the opening part of Trump's ceasefire agreement, together with a Palestinian prisoner release. This agreement might turn into a signature achievement of the president's renewed tenure, and it may represent a key shift for the region.

Simultaneously, a defence of the president’s appearance has emerged from unusual quarters: the spokesperson at Moscow's diplomatic office came forward to denounce the "revealing" photo selection.

"It’s astonishing: a image exposes those who picked it than about the person in it. Only sick people, people obsessed with malice and hatred –perhaps even perverts – could have picked this picture", the official shared on Telegram.

"And given the complimentary photos of President Biden that the periodical used on the cover, despite his physical infirmity, the case is self-damaging for the publication", she noted.

The explanation for the president's inquiries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – might involve artistically representing a sense of power stated by a picture editor, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The photograph technically technically is good," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted trump to look heroic. Gazing upward creates an impression of their importance and his expression actually looks thoughtful and almost a bit ethereal. It's uncommon you see pictures of him in such a serene moment – the picture feels tender."

His hair seems to vanish because the sunlight behind him has bleached that section of the image, generating a radiant circle, she says. Even though the story’s headline marries well with Trump’s expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the individual in question."

"No one likes being photographed from below, and while all of the artistic aspects of the image are highly effective, the appearance are unflattering."

The publication approached the periodical for comment.