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It is a favorable article in a publication that the president has consistently praised – with one exception. The front-page image, the president decreed, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time magazine's tribute to the president's involvement in mediating a Gaza ceasefire, headlining its early November edition, was presented alongside a image of the president captured from underneath and with the sun shining from the back.

The effect, he says, is "super bad".

"The publication wrote a relatively good story about me, but the image may be the most awful ever", he shared on his preferred network.

“They eliminated my hair, and then had a shape drifting on top of my head that looked like a hovering tiara, but an remarkably little one. Quite bizarre! I consistently avoided taking pictures from below viewpoints, but this is a super bad picture, and merits public condemnation. What is their intention, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown no secret of his desire to appear on Time’s cover and did so multiple times in the past year. This fixation has reached Trump’s golf clubs – in 2017, the publication requested to remove fake issues on display at some of his properties.

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

Its angle did no favours for Trump’s chin and neck – a chance that the governor of California Gavin Newsom took advantage of, with his press office posting a modified photo with the offending area blurred.

{The living Israeli hostages held in Gaza have been liberated under the initial stage of Donald Trump's peace plan, together with a release of Palestinian detainees. The arrangement might turn into a major success of the president's renewed tenure, and it could mark a strategic turning point for the region.

Simultaneously, a defence of his portrayal has emerged from unusual quarters: the spokesperson at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs came forward to criticise the "revealing" image choice.

"It’s astonishing: a photo reveals far more about those who picked it than about the person in it. Just unwell persons, people obsessed with malice and resentment –possibly even deviants – could have chosen such a photo", she wrote on the messaging platform.

Considering the favorable images of Biden that the same publication used on the cover, notwithstanding his health issues, the case is self-damaging for Time", she said.

The response to his queries – why did they choose this, and why? – may be something to do with innovatively depicting a feeling of authority says Carly Earl, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The image itself is well-executed," she notes. "They selected this photo because they wanted Trump to look impressive. Gazing upward gives a sense of their importance and the president's visage actually looks thoughtful and almost a bit ethereal. It's rare you see pictures of him in such a serene moment – the image has a softness to it."

Trump’s hair appears to “disappear” because the rear illumination has washed out that area of the image, generating a radiant circle, she says. Even though the story’s headline pairs nicely with Trump’s expression in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the individual in question."

Few people appreciate being shot from underneath, and while all of the artistic aspects of the image are highly effective, the aesthetics are unflattering."

The publication approached the periodical for feedback.