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This is a favorable article in a magazine that Trump has consistently praised – with one exception. The magazine's cover photo, Trump declared, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time's paean to the president's involvement in brokering a ceasefire in Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was presented alongside a image of Trump shot from a low angle and with the sun positioned behind him.

The outcome, he says, is ""extremely poor".

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

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had a shape drifting on top of my head that resembled a floating crown, but an remarkably little one. Quite bizarre! I never liked taking pictures from below viewpoints, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”

Trump has made clear his wish to appear on Time magazine's front page and achieved this on four occasions in the previous year. The obsession has extended to Trump’s golf clubs – in 2017, the publication requested to remove mocked up covers exhibited in a few of his establishments.

This issue's photograph was shot by a photographer for Bloomberg at the White House on October 5.

Its angle did no favours for his chin and neck area – a chance that the governor of California Newsom took advantage of, with his communications team posting a modified photo with the offending area pixelated.

{The Israeli captives detained in Gaza have been freed under the initial stage of Trump's ceasefire agreement, in exchange for a release of Palestinian detainees. The arrangement might turn into a signature achievement of his next term, and it may represent a strategic turning point for the Middle East.

Simultaneously, a defence of the president’s appearance has been offered by an unexpected source: the spokesperson at Moscow's diplomatic office intervened to condemn the "revealing" picture decision.

It's remarkable: a photo says more about those who selected it than about the individual pictured. Just unwell persons, people filled with spite and animosity –possibly even deviants – could have selected such an image", she wrote on the messaging platform.

"And given the complimentary photos of President Biden that the same publication featured on the front, even with his age-related challenges, the story is simply self-incriminating for the publication", she noted.

The response to Trump’s questions – why did they choose this, and why? – might involve innovatively depicting a impression of strength stated by a picture editor, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The photograph technically technically is good," she says. "They picked this image because they wanted Trump to look commanding. Gazing upward evokes a feeling of their majesty 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 picture feels tender."

Trump’s hair appears to “disappear” because the sunlight behind him has bleached that section of the image, producing a glowing aura, she adds. Although the article's title marries well with Trump’s expression in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the person photographed."

"No one likes being photographed from below, and although all of the thematic components of the image are highly effective, the appearance are unflattering."

The news outlet reached out to Time magazine for a statement.