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This is a positive feature in a magazine that Trump has long exalted – except for one issue. The cover picture, Trump declared, ""could be the worst ever".

Time's tribute to the president's involvement in mediating a ceasefire in Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was paired with a photograph of the president taken from below and with the sun shining from the back.

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

"Time Magazine wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the photo may be the Worst of All Time", the president posted on his social media platform.

“They removed my hair, and then had an object hovering on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an remarkably little one. Truly strange! I consistently avoided taking pictures from below viewpoints, but this is a terrible picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”

The president has expressed obvious his ambition to feature on Time magazine's front page and achieved this four times last year. This fixation has reached the president's resorts – in 2017, the publication requested to remove fake issues exhibited in a few of his establishments.

The latest edition’s photo was captured by a photographer for Bloomberg at the presidential residence on October 5.

Its angle was unflattering to his chin and neck area – an opening that California governor Gavin Newsom seized, with the governor's office tweeting a version with the criticized section obscured.

{The Israeli captives in Gaza have been released under the initial stage of Trump's ceasefire agreement, in exchange for a freeing of Palestinian inmates. The deal might turn into a signature achievement of Trump's second term, and it might signify a key shift for the Middle East.

Meanwhile, a defence of Trump's image has been offered by unusual quarters: the spokesperson at the Russian foreign ministry stepped in to condemn the "self-incriminating" photo selection.

It's amazing: a photo says more about those who chose it than about the subject. Only disturbed individuals, people filled with spite and resentment –maybe even degenerates – could have selected such an image", she posted on Telegram.

"And given the complimentary photos of President Biden that the same publication displayed on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the case is self-damaging for the publication", she said.

The explanation for his queries – what did the editors intend, and why? – might involve artistically representing a impression of strength stated by an imaging expert, a media professional.

"The actual photo itself is well-executed," she explains. "They chose this shot because they wanted trump to look heroic. Looking up at a person evokes a feeling of their majesty and his expression actually looks contemplative and almost somewhat divine. 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 bleached that section of the image, producing a glowing aura, she explains. Even though the story’s headline marries well with his facial expression in the image, "you can’t always please the subject matter."

Nobody enjoys being shot from underneath, and although all of the conceptual elements of the image are highly effective, the appearance are not flattering."

The news outlet contacted the magazine for a statement.