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It is a glowing feature in a magazine that Donald Trump has frequently admired – except for one issue. The magazine's cover photo, the president decreed, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time magazine's praise to Donald Trump's part in brokering a ceasefire in Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was paired with a photo of Trump captured from underneath and with the sun behind his head.

The result, Trump claims, is ""extremely poor".

"The publication wrote a relatively good story about me, but the image may be the Worst of All Time", Trump wrote on his preferred network.

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a hovering tiara, but an extremely small one. Quite bizarre! I always disliked taking pictures from low perspectives, but this is a terrible picture, and should be criticized. What is their intention, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown clear his wish to be pictured on Time’s cover and did so on four occasions in the previous year. The preoccupation has extended to Trump’s golf clubs – previously, the editors demanded to remove mocked up covers exhibited in several of his venues.

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

The shot's viewpoint did no favours for the president's jawline and throat – an opening that California governor Gavin Newsom seized, with the governor's office posting a modified photo with the problematic part obscured.

{The Israeli captives detained in Gaza have been freed under the opening part of Donald Trump's peace plan, alongside a release of Palestinian detainees. This agreement might turn into a defining accomplishment of the president's renewed tenure, and it may represent a strategic turning point for that part of the world.

Simultaneously, a support for his portrayal has emerged from a surprising origin: the director of information at Moscow's diplomatic office stepped in to condemn the "self-incriminating" picture decision.

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

Considering the favorable images of President Biden that the same publication used on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the story is simply self-incriminating for the publication", she said.

The response to the president's inquiries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – might involve creatively capturing a sense of power according to Carly Earl, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The photograph technically technically is good," she notes. "They picked this image because they wanted trump to look impressive. Looking up at a person creates an impression of their importance and Trump’s face actually looks reflective and almost a bit ethereal. It's rare you see pictures of him in such a calm instance – the image has a softness to it."

The president's hair looks erased because the light from behind has washed out that area of the image, generating a radiant circle, she explains. Although the story’s headline marries well with Trump’s expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the individual in question."

"No one likes being photographed from below, and while all of the conceptual elements of the image are quite powerful, the visual appeal are not complimentary."

The news outlet approached the magazine for feedback.