'The worst of all time': Donald Trump rails against Time's 'extremely poor' cover image.

It is a positive story in a periodical that Trump has consistently praised – but for one catch. The front-page image, he stated, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time magazine's paean to Trump's role in facilitating a truce for Gaza, featured on its November 10 cover, was paired with a image of Trump captured from underneath while the sun behind his head.

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

"Time Magazine wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the picture may be the most awful ever", Trump wrote on his social media platform.

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that resembled a hovering tiara, but an very tiny one. Truly strange! I never liked taking pictures from low perspectives, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. Why did they do this, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown obvious his ambition to appear on Time’s cover and accomplished it multiple times in the past year. The obsession has reached Trump’s golf clubs – years ago, the magazine asked him to remove mocked up covers shown in several of his venues.

The most recent cover image was taken by Graeme Sloane for a news agency at the White House on 5 October.

The shot's viewpoint was unflattering to his chin and neck area – a chance that the governor of California Newsom did not miss, with his press office tweeting a version with the problematic part blurred.

{The hostages from Israel detained in Gaza have been liberated under the first phase of the president's diplomatic initiative, alongside a Palestinian prisoner release. This agreement may become a defining accomplishment of the president's renewed tenure, and it may represent a key shift for the region.

At the same time, a defence of Trump's image has been offered by a surprising origin: the director of information at the Russian foreign ministry came forward to condemn the "damaging" photo selection.

It's amazing: a image reveals far more about those who chose it than about the individual pictured. Only disturbed individuals, people obsessed with malice and hatred –maybe even degenerates – could have selected such an image", Maria Zakharova shared on her social channel.

Considering the favorable images of Biden that the periodical displayed on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the situation is self-revealing for the magazine", she noted.

The response to his queries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – might involve creatively capturing a feeling of authority stated by an imaging expert, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

"The actual photo itself is well-executed," she says. "They picked this image because they wanted the president to look impressive. Gazing upward creates an impression of their grandeur and his expression actually looks thoughtful and almost somewhat divine. It's rare you see pictures of him in such a peaceful state – the photo appears gentle."

His hair appears to “disappear” because the rear illumination has overexposed that part of the image, producing a glowing aura, she explains. Even though the story’s headline complements the president's look in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the person photographed."

Few people appreciate being photographed from below, and although all of the conceptual elements of the image are highly effective, the visual appeal are not complimentary."

The publication contacted the periodical for comment.