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It is a glowing story in a publication that the president has consistently praised – but for one catch. The front-page image, the president decreed, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time magazine's tribute to Trump's role in facilitating a truce for Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was paired with a image of Trump shot from a low angle while the sun behind his head.

The outcome, the president asserts, is "super bad".

"Time Magazine wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the picture may be the most awful ever", Trump wrote on his social media platform.

“My hair was obscured, and then there was something floating my head that appeared as a suspended diadem, but extremely small. Really weird! I have never liked being shot from underneath, but this is a super bad image, and it merits criticism. What is their goal, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown obvious his ambition to feature on the cover of Time and achieved this four times last year. This fixation has extended to his golf courses – years ago, the publication requested to remove mocked up covers exhibited in a few of his establishments.

This issue's photograph was shot by a photographer for Bloomberg at the presidential residence on the fifth of October.

The shot's viewpoint highlighted negatively Trump’s chin and neck – an opportunity that California governor Newsom seized, with his communications team sharing an altered image with the offending area pixelated.

{The hostages from Israel detained in Gaza have been released under the first phase of the president's diplomatic initiative, in exchange for a release of Palestinian detainees. This agreement might turn into a major success of Trump's second term, and it might signify a key shift for the Middle East.

At the same time, a defense of his portrayal has come from unusual quarters: the spokesperson at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs stepped in to condemn the "revealing" image choice.

It's remarkable: a image exposes those who selected it than about the person in it. Just unwell persons, people obsessed with malice and resentment –perhaps even perverts – could have picked this picture", Maria Zakharova wrote on her social channel.

Considering the favorable images of Biden that the periodical displayed on the cover, notwithstanding his health issues, the story is simply self-incriminating for the publication", she added.

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

The image itself is professionally taken," she notes. "They selected this photo because they wanted the president to look impressive. Gazing upward evokes a feeling of their grandeur and the president's visage actually looks thoughtful and almost slightly angelic. It's rare you see pictures of him in such a serene moment – the photo appears gentle."

Trump’s hair appears to “disappear” because the sunlight behind him has washed out that area of the image, generating a radiant circle, she adds. And, while the feature's heading pairs nicely with Trump’s expression in the image, "you can’t always please the individual in question."

"No one likes being captured from low angles, and although all of the artistic aspects of the image are very strong, the aesthetics are not complimentary."

The publication reached out to the periodical for a statement.