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It is a positive feature in a magazine that Trump has frequently admired – with one exception. The front-page image, Trump declared, ""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 accompanied by a image of the president taken from below and with the sun positioned behind him.

The effect, he says, is ""terrible".

"Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the image may be the Worst of All Time", the president posted on Truth Social.

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a suspended coronet, but an extremely small one. Truly strange! I consistently avoided taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a extremely poor picture, and deserves to be called out. Why did they do this, and why?”

The president has expressed obvious his ambition to feature on Time magazine's front page and achieved this on four occasions in the previous year. The preoccupation has extended to the president's resorts – in 2017, the editors demanded to remove mocked up covers shown in several of his venues.

The most recent cover image was captured by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the presidential residence on October 5.

The shot's viewpoint was unflattering to the president's jawline and throat – an opening that California governor Newsom took advantage of, with his press office tweeting a version with the criticized section obscured.

{The living Israeli hostages detained in Gaza have been liberated under the initial stage of Donald Trump's peace plan, together with a Palestinian prisoner release. The arrangement may become a major success of his next term, and it may represent a key shift for the Middle East.

At the same time, a support for his portrayal has come from unusual quarters: the director of information at Moscow's diplomatic office stepped in to criticise the "revealing" photo selection.

It's remarkable: a photo says more about those who picked it than about the subject. Only sick people, people obsessed with malice and hatred –possibly even deviants – could have selected such an image", she wrote on her social channel.

In light of the positive pictures of Biden that the periodical used on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the situation is self-revealing for the magazine", she noted.

The answer to the president's inquiries – why did they choose this, and why? – might involve artistically representing a sense of power according to a picture editor, an Australian publication's photo editor.

"The actual photo itself is well-executed," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted trump to look impressive. Looking up at a person evokes a feeling of their grandeur and his expression actually looks thoughtful and almost somewhat divine. It's uncommon you see pictures of him in such a peaceful state – the photo appears gentle."

Trump’s hair looks erased because the light from behind has overexposed that part of the image, producing a glowing aura, she explains. Although the story’s headline pairs nicely with Trump’s expression in the image, "you can’t always please the individual in question."

"No one likes being captured from low angles, and even if all of the artistic aspects of the image are quite powerful, the visual appeal are not complimentary."

The news outlet contacted Time magazine for comment.