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This is a favorable article in a magazine that Donald Trump has frequently admired – except for one issue. The magazine's cover photo, Trump declared, ""could be the worst ever".

Time's tribute to the president's involvement in facilitating a truce for Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was paired with a photograph of Trump shot from a low angle and with the sun shining from the back.

The result, he says, is ""terrible".

"Time Magazine 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 obscured, and then there was a shape over my head that seemed like a hovering crown, but extremely small. Really weird! I have consistently disliked being photographed from below, but this is a extremely poor image, and it merits criticism. Why did they choose this, and why?”

Trump has made obvious his ambition to feature on the cover of Time and achieved this multiple times in the past year. This fixation has made it as far as his golf courses – previously, the magazine asked him to remove mocked up covers shown in some of his properties.

This issue's photograph was taken by Graeme Sloane for a news agency at the White House on the fifth of October.

Its angle highlighted negatively his chin and neck area – a chance that California governor Newsom took advantage of, with his communications team tweeting a version with the problematic part blurred.

{The hostages from Israel in Gaza have been freed under the first phase of Trump's ceasefire agreement, together with a freeing of Palestinian inmates. This agreement might turn into a signature achievement of his next term, and it may represent a pivotal moment for the Middle East.

At the same time, a defense of the president’s appearance has come from an unexpected source: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs intervened to criticise the "damaging" picture decision.

"It’s astonishing: a photograph reveals far more about those who selected it than about the individual pictured. Just unwell persons, people filled with spite and animosity –maybe even degenerates – could have picked this picture", the official shared on Telegram.

In light of the positive pictures of Biden that that magazine featured on the front, even with his age-related challenges, the situation is self-revealing for the magazine", she noted.

The answer to the president's inquiries – why did they choose this, and why? – may be something to do with innovatively depicting a impression of strength stated by Carly Earl, a media professional.

The image itself is well-executed," she says. "They picked this image because they wanted Trump to look impressive. Staring up at someone gives a sense of their importance and his expression actually looks reflective and almost slightly angelic. It’s not often you see pictures of him in such a calm instance – the image has a softness to it."

Trump’s hair appears to “disappear” because the rear illumination has bleached that section of the image, producing a glowing aura, she says. Even though the story’s headline marries well with his facial expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the individual in question."

Few people appreciate being shot from underneath, and even if all of the artistic aspects of the image are very strong, the visual appeal are unflattering."

The publication approached the magazine for comment.