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This is a favorable feature in a publication that Trump has consistently praised – but for one catch. The magazine's cover photo, the president decreed, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time magazine's paean to Donald Trump's part in facilitating a ceasefire in Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was presented alongside a image of Trump taken from below and with the sun positioned behind him.

The effect, the president asserts, is ""extremely poor".

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

“They removed my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Truly strange! I consistently avoided taking pictures from below viewpoints, but this is a terrible picture, and merits public condemnation. Why did they do this, and why?”

The president has expressed obvious his ambition to be pictured on the cover of Time and achieved this on four occasions in the previous year. The obsession has extended to Trump’s golf clubs – previously, the publication requested to remove mocked up covers shown in a few of his establishments.

The latest edition’s photo was shot by Graeme Sloane for a news agency at the presidential residence on October 5.

Its angle highlighted negatively his chin and neck area – a chance that the governor of California Gavin Newsom took advantage of, with the governor's office tweeting a version with the problematic part blurred.

{The hostages from Israel held in Gaza have been liberated under the opening part of Donald Trump's peace plan, in exchange for a release of Palestinian detainees. The deal might turn into a major success of the president's renewed tenure, and it may represent a strategic turning point for that part of the world.

Simultaneously, a support for Trump's image has come from an unexpected source: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs came forward to denounce the "self-incriminating" image choice.

It's amazing: a photograph says more about those who chose it than about the individual pictured. Only disturbed individuals, people filled with spite and animosity –possibly even deviants – could have chosen such a photo", she posted on Telegram.

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

The response to his queries – what did the editors intend, and why? – could be related to creatively capturing a feeling of authority according to Carly Earl, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The image itself technically is good," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted trump to look commanding. Staring up at someone gives a sense of their majesty and the president's visage actually looks reflective and almost somewhat divine. It’s not often you see pictures of him in such a serene moment – the image has a softness to it."

The president's hair appears to “disappear” because the sunlight behind him has washed out that area of the image, creating a halo effect, she says. Even though the article's title marries well with the president's look in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the individual in question."

"No one likes being shot from underneath, and although all of the artistic aspects of the image are highly effective, the appearance are not complimentary."

The publication contacted the magazine for comment.