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This is a favorable article in a magazine that the president has frequently admired – but for one catch. The magazine's cover photo, Trump declared, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time magazine's paean to Donald Trump's part in facilitating a truce for Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was presented alongside a photo of Trump taken from below while the sun positioned behind him.

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

"Time wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the image may be the Worst of All Time", the president posted on his social media platform.

“They removed my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I always disliked taking pictures from below viewpoints, but this is a extremely poor picture, and merits public condemnation. What is their intention, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown clear his wish to appear on the cover of Time and accomplished it on four occasions in the previous year. This fixation has extended to his golf courses – years ago, the magazine asked him to remove mocked up covers on display at a few of his establishments.

This issue's photograph was taken by a photographer for a news agency at the White House on October 5.

The perspective was unflattering to Trump’s chin and neck – an opening that California governor Gavin Newsom seized, with his press office tweeting a version with the problematic part obscured.

{The Israeli captives detained in Gaza have been released under the initial stage of Trump's ceasefire agreement, together with a freeing of Palestinian inmates. The arrangement might turn into a defining accomplishment of his next term, and it might signify a key shift for the Middle East.

Simultaneously, a defense of Trump's image has come from a surprising origin: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs came forward to criticise the "damaging" image choice.

"It’s astonishing: a image says more about those who selected it than about the individual pictured. Only disturbed individuals, people filled with spite and animosity –possibly even deviants – could have chosen such a photo", Maria Zakharova shared on the messaging platform.

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

The answer to his queries – what did the editors intend, and why? – could be related to innovatively depicting a feeling of authority according to Carly Earl, an Australian publication's photo editor.

"The actual photo itself is well-executed," she says. "They selected this photo because they wanted Trump to look impressive. Staring up at someone creates an impression of their grandeur and his expression actually looks contemplative and almost somewhat divine. It’s not often you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the image has a softness to it."

The president's hair seems to vanish because the sunlight behind him has washed out that area of the image, creating a halo effect, she says. Although the article's title marries well with his facial expression in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the person photographed."

Few people appreciate being photographed from below, and even if all of the artistic aspects of the image are very strong, the appearance are not complimentary."

The news outlet approached the magazine for feedback.