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It is a positive feature in a periodical that Trump has frequently admired – with one exception. The magazine's cover photo, he stated, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time's tribute to the president's involvement in facilitating a Gaza ceasefire, featured on its November 10 cover, was accompanied by a photo of Trump taken from below while the sun behind his head.

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

"Time Magazine wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the photo may be the Worst of All Time", he shared on Truth Social.

“They eliminated my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that appeared as a suspended coronet, but an remarkably little one. Truly strange! I always disliked taking pictures from below viewpoints, but this is a extremely poor picture, and should be criticized. What is their intention, and why?”

Trump has made obvious his ambition to appear on Time magazine's front page and accomplished it on four occasions in the previous year. The preoccupation has made it as far as Trump’s golf clubs – previously, the editors demanded to remove fake issues exhibited in some of his properties.

The most recent cover image was captured by a photographer for a news agency at the presidential residence on October 5.

Its angle did no favours for his chin and neck area – an opportunity that California governor Newsom did not miss, with the governor's office sharing an altered image with the criticized section pixelated.

{The hostages from Israel in Gaza have been freed under the first phase of the president's diplomatic initiative, alongside a freeing of Palestinian inmates. The arrangement might turn into a defining accomplishment of his next term, and it might signify a pivotal moment for the Middle East.

At the same time, a support for Trump's image has been offered by an unexpected source: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs intervened to condemn the "revealing" image choice.

It's remarkable: a photo exposes those who selected it than about the person in it. Only disturbed individuals, people filled with spite and hatred –possibly even deviants – could have picked this picture", she wrote on the messaging platform.

Considering the favorable images of Biden that the periodical featured on the front, even with his age-related challenges, the story is simply self-incriminating for Time", she noted.

The response to the president's inquiries – why did they choose this, and why? – could be related to innovatively depicting a impression of strength according to an imaging expert, a media professional.

The photograph technically technically is good," she notes. "They picked this image because they wanted Trump to look heroic. Looking up at a person evokes a feeling of their importance and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost somewhat divine. It’s not often you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the image has a softness to it."

His hair seems to vanish because the rear illumination has washed out that area of the image, generating a radiant circle, she explains. Although the feature's heading pairs nicely with Trump’s expression in the image, "you can’t always please the individual in question."

Nobody enjoys being shot from underneath, and even if all of the thematic components of the image are very strong, the visual appeal are unflattering."

The Guardian approached the periodical for a statement.