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This is a positive article in a magazine that Trump has frequently admired – except for one issue. The cover picture, he stated, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time magazine's praise to Donald Trump's part in facilitating a ceasefire in Gaza, leading its 10 November issue, was presented alongside a photograph of Trump shot from a low angle and with the sun behind his head.

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

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

“My hair was ‘disappeared’, and then there was a shape over my head that seemed like a hovering crown, but extremely small. Truly strange! I have always hated being captured from low angles, but this is a extremely poor image, and it deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”

Trump has made obvious his ambition to feature on the cover of Time and achieved this four times last year. This fixation has made it as far as his golf courses – previously, the editors demanded to remove fabricated front pages exhibited in a few of his establishments.

The most recent cover image was shot by Graeme Sloane for a news agency at the presidential residence on the fifth of October.

Its angle did no favours for his chin and neck area – a chance that the governor of California Newsom seized, with his communications team sharing an altered image with the problematic part blurred.

{The hostages from Israel held in Gaza have been freed under the initial stage of Donald Trump's peace plan, together with a release of Palestinian detainees. The deal could be a signature achievement of the president's renewed tenure, and it could mark a strategic turning point for that part of the world.

Simultaneously, a support for the president’s appearance has come from an unexpected source: the communications chief at the Russian foreign ministry intervened to criticise the "revealing" image choice.

It's amazing: a image exposes those who selected it than about the person in it. Just unwell persons, people driven by hatred and animosity –perhaps even perverts – could have chosen such a photo", she shared on Telegram.

In light of the positive pictures of Biden that the periodical displayed on the cover, notwithstanding his health issues, the case is self-damaging for the magazine", she noted.

The answer to the president's inquiries – why did they choose this, and why? – might involve creatively capturing a impression of strength says Carly Earl, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The photograph technically is professionally taken," she says. "They chose this shot because they wanted Trump to look commanding. Gazing upward evokes a feeling of their grandeur and the president's visage actually looks thoughtful and almost a bit ethereal. It's rare you see images of the president in such a serene moment – the image has a softness to it."

His hair looks erased because the rear illumination has bleached that section of the image, producing a glowing aura, she adds. And, while the story’s headline marries well with his facial expression in the image, "you can’t always please the person photographed."

Nobody enjoys being shot from underneath, and while all of the thematic components of the image are quite powerful, the visual appeal are not flattering."

The publication approached the periodical for comment.