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It is a favorable story in a magazine that Trump has consistently praised – but for one catch. The front-page image, he stated, ""could be the worst ever".

Time's paean to Donald Trump's part in brokering a truce for Gaza, featured on its November 10 cover, was accompanied by a photo of the president taken from below and with the sun behind his head.

The effect, Trump claims, is ""terrible".

"Time Magazine wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the image may be the lowest quality in history", the president posted on his social media platform.

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had an object hovering on top of my head that resembled a hovering tiara, but an very tiny one. Quite bizarre! I consistently avoided taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a terrible picture, and should be criticized. Why did they do this, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown obvious his ambition to feature on the cover of Time and accomplished it multiple times in the past year. The obsession has extended to Trump’s golf clubs – years ago, the publication requested to remove fabricated front pages exhibited in several of his venues.

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

The perspective was unflattering to Trump’s chin and neck – an opening that the governor of California Gavin Newsom took advantage of, with the governor's office posting a modified photo with the problematic part obscured.

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Meanwhile, a defence of the president’s appearance has come from unusual quarters: the communications chief at Moscow's diplomatic office came forward to denounce the "self-incriminating" picture decision.

It's remarkable: a image reveals far more about those who chose it than about the individual pictured. Just unwell persons, people driven by hatred and resentment –possibly even deviants – could have picked this picture", she posted on Telegram.

In light of the positive pictures of Biden that that magazine displayed on the cover, despite his physical infirmity, the situation is self-revealing for the magazine", she added.

The answer to his queries – why did they choose this, and why? – might involve creatively capturing a feeling of authority according to Carly Earl, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

"The actual photo itself technically is good," she explains. "They picked this image because they wanted the president to look commanding. Looking up at a person gives a sense of their importance and Trump’s face actually looks reflective and almost slightly angelic. It’s not often you see images of the president in such a calm instance – the picture feels tender."

Trump’s hair seems to vanish because the sunlight behind him has washed out that area of the image, generating a radiant circle, she explains. Although the story’s headline pairs nicely with the president's look in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the person photographed."

Nobody enjoys being photographed from below, and although all of the artistic aspects of the image are quite powerful, the aesthetics are unflattering."

The publication contacted the periodical for a statement.