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It is a favorable article in a magazine that the president has frequently admired – but for one catch. The cover picture, he stated, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time magazine's praise to Trump's role in facilitating a ceasefire in Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was presented alongside a photograph of the president taken from below and with the sun positioned behind him.

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

"Time wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the picture may be the lowest quality in history", the president posted on Truth Social.

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had an object hovering on top of my head that looked like a hovering tiara, but an extremely small one. Quite bizarre! I always disliked taking pictures from low perspectives, but this is a terrible picture, and merits public condemnation. What are they doing, and why?”

The president has expressed clear his wish to feature on Time magazine's front page and achieved this multiple times in the past year. This fixation has reached Trump’s golf clubs – previously, the editors demanded to remove fabricated front pages exhibited in some of his properties.

The latest edition’s photo was captured by a photographer for a news agency at the White House on the fifth of October.

The perspective did no favours for the president's jawline and throat – an opportunity that the governor of California Gavin Newsom took advantage of, with the governor's office tweeting a version with the criticized section blurred.

{The living Israeli hostages held in Gaza have been liberated under the first phase of Donald Trump's peace plan, alongside a release of Palestinian detainees. The deal may become a signature achievement of his next term, and it may represent a pivotal moment for the region.

Simultaneously, a defence of his portrayal has emerged from a surprising origin: the communications chief at Moscow's diplomatic office stepped in to criticise the "revealing" photo selection.

"It’s astonishing: a photograph exposes those who chose it than about the individual pictured. Just unwell persons, people driven by hatred and animosity –perhaps even perverts – could have chosen such a photo", the official shared on the messaging platform.

In light of the positive pictures of Biden that the same publication used on the cover, despite his physical infirmity, the story is simply self-incriminating for the magazine", she said.

The answer to his queries – what did the editors intend, and why? – might involve innovatively depicting a feeling of authority according to a picture editor, 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 evokes a feeling of their importance and his expression actually looks thoughtful and almost a bit ethereal. It’s not often you see pictures of him in such a serene moment – the picture feels tender."

His hair appears to “disappear” because the rear illumination has bleached that section of the image, generating a radiant circle, she explains. And, while the feature's heading marries well with the president's look in the image, "you can’t always please the individual in question."

"No one likes being photographed from below, and while all of the thematic components of the image are very strong, the aesthetics are not complimentary."

The news outlet contacted the periodical for feedback.