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It is a favorable article in a periodical that the president has consistently praised – except for one issue. The cover picture, he stated, ""could be the worst ever".

Time magazine's paean to Donald Trump's part in brokering a ceasefire in Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was accompanied by a photo of Trump shot from a low angle while the sun behind his head.

The outcome, he says, is ""terrible".

"Time wrote a relatively good story about me, but the photo may be the Worst of All Time", the president posted on his social media platform.

“My hair was ‘disappeared’, and then there was a shape over my head that looked like a floating crown, but very tiny. Truly strange! I have always hated being shot from underneath, but this is a extremely poor image, and it should be denounced. What are they doing, and why?”

The president has expressed clear his wish to be pictured on the cover of Time and did so multiple times in the past year. This fixation has extended to the president's resorts – years ago, the editors demanded to remove mocked up covers on display at a few of his establishments.

The latest edition’s photo was shot by a photographer for a news agency at the White House on the fifth of October.

The shot's viewpoint was unflattering to his chin and neck area – an opportunity that California governor Newsom did not miss, with his communications team tweeting a version with the criticized section pixelated.

{The hostages from Israel detained in Gaza have been liberated under the initial stage of the president's diplomatic initiative, together with a release of Palestinian detainees. The deal might turn into a defining accomplishment of Trump's second term, and it might signify a strategic turning point for that part of the world.

Simultaneously, a defense of his portrayal has emerged from a surprising origin: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs stepped in to criticise the "revealing" picture decision.

"It’s astonishing: a image exposes those who picked it than about the individual pictured. Just unwell persons, people obsessed with malice and resentment –maybe even degenerates – could have selected such an image", Maria Zakharova posted on the messaging platform.

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

The answer to the president's inquiries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – might involve artistically representing a impression of strength according to a picture editor, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

"The actual photo itself is professionally taken," she says. "They picked this image because they wanted the president to look impressive. Staring up at someone creates an impression of their importance and Trump’s face actually looks contemplative and almost a bit ethereal. It's rare you see photos of Trump in such a serene moment – the picture feels tender."

The president's hair seems to vanish because the sunlight behind him has overexposed that part of the image, generating a radiant circle, she adds. Even though the article's title marries well with the president's look in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the subject matter."

Nobody enjoys being photographed from below, and even if all of the conceptual elements of the image are very strong, the aesthetics are not complimentary."

The news outlet contacted Time magazine for feedback.