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It is a favorable article in a periodical that Trump has consistently praised – except for one issue. The front-page image, the president decreed, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time magazine's praise to the president's involvement in facilitating a ceasefire in Gaza, featured on its November 10 cover, was paired with a photograph of Trump captured from underneath while the sun behind his head.

The outcome, the president asserts, is ""terrible".

"Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the most awful ever", the president posted on his preferred network.

“My hair was obscured, and then there was something floating my head that seemed like a floating crown, but extremely small. Really weird! I have always hated being captured from low angles, but this is a awful image, and it deserves to be called out. What is their goal, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown obvious his ambition to feature on the cover of Time and achieved this multiple times in the past year. The obsession has reached the president's resorts – years ago, the magazine asked him to remove fake issues exhibited in some of his properties.

The latest edition’s photo was taken by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the White House on 5 October.

The shot's viewpoint did no favours for Trump’s chin and neck – an opportunity that the governor of California Newsom did not miss, with his press office tweeting a version with the problematic part blurred.

{The living Israeli hostages held in Gaza have been released under the initial stage of Donald Trump's peace plan, alongside a freeing of Palestinian inmates. The deal might turn into a signature achievement of his next term, and it may represent a strategic turning point for the Middle East.

At the same time, a defence of the president’s appearance has come from an unexpected source: the spokesperson at the Russian foreign ministry intervened to condemn the "revealing" photo selection.

It's remarkable: a photo exposes those who selected it than about the person in it. Only sick people, people filled with spite and animosity –perhaps even perverts – could have selected such an image", the official posted on Telegram.

Considering the favorable images of Biden that the periodical used on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the case is self-damaging for the publication", she added.

The explanation for Trump’s questions – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – may be something to do with creatively capturing a feeling of authority stated by Carly Earl, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The image itself technically is good," she says. "They selected this photo because they wanted Trump to look commanding. Gazing upward gives a sense of their majesty and his expression actually looks thoughtful and almost somewhat divine. It's uncommon you see pictures of him in such a serene moment – the photo appears gentle."

His hair looks erased because the sunlight behind him has bleached that section of the image, producing a glowing aura, she says. Although the article's title pairs nicely with his facial expression in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the individual in question."

Nobody enjoys being photographed from below, and while all of the thematic components of the image are highly effective, the visual appeal are not flattering."

The news outlet reached out to the periodical for a statement.