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It is a favorable article in a publication that Trump has long exalted – except for one issue. The cover picture, the president decreed, ""could be the worst ever".

Time magazine's tribute to Donald Trump's part in facilitating a truce for Gaza, leading its 10 November issue, was accompanied by a image of the president taken from below and with the sun positioned behind him.

The outcome, Trump claims, is ""extremely poor".

"Time wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the picture may be the lowest quality in history", Trump wrote on his preferred network.

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had a shape drifting 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 super bad 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 accomplished it four times last year. This fixation has extended to his golf courses – previously, the editors demanded to remove fake issues on display at a few of his establishments.

The latest edition’s photo was shot by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the presidential residence on the fifth of October.

Its angle was unflattering to Trump’s chin and neck – an opportunity that the governor of California Newsom seized, with the governor's office sharing an altered image with the problematic part pixelated.

{The Israeli captives detained in Gaza have been freed under the initial stage of Donald Trump's peace plan, in exchange for a release of Palestinian detainees. The arrangement may become a major success of Trump's second term, and it could mark a strategic turning point for that part of the world.

At the same time, a defence of his portrayal has come from unusual quarters: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs intervened to denounce the "self-incriminating" photo selection.

"It’s astonishing: a photograph says more about those who picked it than about the person in it. Only disturbed individuals, people obsessed with malice and resentment –maybe even degenerates – could have selected such an image", Maria Zakharova posted on Telegram.

In light of the positive pictures of Biden that the same publication used on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the situation is self-revealing for Time", she noted.

The response to his queries – what did the editors intend, and why? – could be related to creatively capturing a sense of power according to an imaging expert, an Australian publication's photo editor.

"The actual photo itself technically is good," she notes. "They picked this image because they wanted trump to look impressive. Looking up at a person evokes a feeling of their importance and Trump’s face actually looks contemplative and almost somewhat divine. It’s not often you see images of the president in such a calm instance – the picture feels tender."

His hair looks erased because the sunlight behind him has overexposed that part of the image, producing a glowing aura, she says. Although the story’s headline complements Trump’s expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the person photographed."

"No one likes being photographed from below, and although all of the artistic aspects of the image are very strong, the aesthetics are not flattering."

The news outlet contacted the periodical for a statement.