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It is a positive story in a magazine that Donald Trump has frequently admired – except for one issue. The magazine's cover photo, Trump declared, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time's praise to Donald Trump's part in brokering a ceasefire in Gaza, featured on its November 10 cover, was presented alongside a photo of the president shot from a low angle while the sun positioned behind him.

The outcome, he says, is ""extremely poor".

"Time wrote a relatively good story about me, but the photo may be the most awful ever", he shared on his preferred network.

“My hair was ‘disappeared’, and then there was something floating my head that appeared as a suspended diadem, but quite miniature. Truly strange! I have always hated being shot from underneath, but this is a extremely poor image, and it merits criticism. Why did they choose this, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown clear his wish to be pictured on Time’s cover and did so four times last year. The obsession has extended to the president's resorts – in 2017, the publication requested to remove fake issues on display at several of his venues.

The most recent cover image was shot by a photographer for Bloomberg at the White House on the fifth of October.

The shot's viewpoint highlighted negatively his chin and neck area – an opportunity that California governor Gavin Newsom seized, with the governor's office tweeting a version with the criticized section blurred.

{The Israeli captives held in Gaza have been liberated under the first phase of Trump's ceasefire agreement, together with a Palestinian prisoner release. This agreement may become a defining accomplishment of Trump's second term, and it might signify a key shift for that part of the world.

At the same time, a support for the president’s appearance has come from unusual quarters: the spokesperson at the Russian foreign ministry intervened to condemn the "self-incriminating" photo selection.

It's remarkable: a photograph reveals far more about those who selected it than about the subject. Only disturbed individuals, people filled with spite and animosity –possibly even deviants – could have picked this picture", she shared on her social channel.

Considering the favorable images of President Biden that the same publication displayed on the cover, notwithstanding his health issues, the story is simply self-incriminating for Time", she noted.

The explanation for the president's inquiries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – could be related to creatively capturing a feeling of authority says an imaging expert, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The photograph technically technically is good," she notes. "They chose this shot because they wanted trump to look heroic. Gazing upward gives a sense of their grandeur and the president's visage actually looks reflective and almost a bit ethereal. It's uncommon you see pictures of him in such a peaceful state – the image has a softness to it."

His hair seems to vanish because the sunlight behind him has washed out that area of the image, creating a halo effect, she explains. Although the story’s headline complements the president's look in the image, "you can’t always please the person photographed."

Few people appreciate being photographed from below, and while all of the conceptual elements of the image are very strong, the aesthetics are unflattering."

The publication contacted Time magazine for feedback.