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This is a favorable article in a magazine that Donald Trump has frequently admired – but for one catch. The front-page image, Trump declared, ""could be the worst ever".

Time magazine's praise to the president's involvement in brokering a Gaza ceasefire, headlining its early November edition, was presented alongside a image of Trump shot from a low angle while the sun shining from the back.

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

"The publication wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the photo may be the lowest quality in history", Trump wrote 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 extremely small one. Truly strange! I consistently avoided taking pictures from below viewpoints, but this is a extremely poor picture, and should be criticized. What is their intention, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown obvious his ambition to feature on the cover of Time and accomplished it multiple times in the past year. The preoccupation has reached Trump’s golf clubs – years ago, the editors demanded to remove fabricated front pages exhibited in a few of his establishments.

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

The perspective did no favours for his chin and neck area – a chance that California governor Newsom took advantage of, with his press office posting a modified photo with the criticized section blurred.

{The Israeli captives held in Gaza have been liberated under the first phase of the president's diplomatic initiative, alongside a release of Palestinian detainees. The deal might turn into a major success of Trump's second term, and it may represent a strategic turning point for the Middle East.

Simultaneously, a defense of the president’s appearance has emerged from unusual quarters: the director of information at Moscow's diplomatic office came forward to criticise the "self-incriminating" image choice.

"It’s astonishing: a image reveals far more about those who chose it than about the subject. Only disturbed individuals, people obsessed with malice and animosity –possibly even deviants – could have picked this picture", the official wrote on her social channel.

Considering the favorable images of Biden that the periodical displayed on the cover, despite his physical infirmity, the situation is self-revealing for the publication", she said.

The explanation for Trump’s questions – what did the editors intend, and why? – could be related to innovatively depicting a impression of strength stated by a picture editor, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The image itself is well-executed," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted the president to look impressive. Gazing upward gives a sense of their majesty and his expression actually looks contemplative and almost a bit ethereal. It's rare you see photos of Trump in such a peaceful state – the picture feels tender."

The president's hair appears to “disappear” because the sunlight behind him has overexposed that part of the image, generating a radiant circle, she adds. Although the story’s headline complements his facial expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the individual in question."

Few people appreciate being shot from underneath, and even if all of the thematic components of the image are very strong, the visual appeal are not flattering."

The news outlet reached out to the magazine for comment.