'The worst of all time': Donald Trump rails against Time magazine's 'extremely poor' cover image.

It is a positive feature in a publication that Donald Trump has long exalted – but for one catch. The front-page image, he stated, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time's praise to Trump's role in brokering a Gaza ceasefire, featured on its November 10 cover, was paired with a image of Trump taken from below while the sun positioned behind him.

The effect, he says, is "super bad".

"The publication wrote a relatively good story about me, but the image may be the lowest quality in history", Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had a shape drifting on top of my head that appeared as a suspended coronet, but an very tiny one. Really weird! I consistently avoided taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a extremely poor picture, and deserves to be called out. What is their intention, and why?”

The president has expressed no secret of his desire to feature on the cover of Time and accomplished it four times last year. This fixation has reached Trump’s golf clubs – previously, the publication requested to remove fabricated front pages shown in a few of his establishments.

This issue's photograph was shot by Graeme Sloane for a news agency at the presidential residence on October 5.

The perspective highlighted negatively the president's jawline and throat – a chance that the governor of California Newsom seized, with his communications team sharing an altered image with the problematic part pixelated.

{The Israeli captives in Gaza have been freed under the opening part of the president's diplomatic initiative, together with a release of Palestinian detainees. The arrangement could be a defining accomplishment of the president's renewed tenure, and it may represent a strategic turning point for the region.

At the same time, a support for his portrayal has been offered by unusual quarters: the spokesperson at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs came forward to denounce the "damaging" picture decision.

It's remarkable: a photo reveals far more about those who picked it than about the individual pictured. Just unwell persons, people driven by hatred and hatred –perhaps even perverts – could have selected such an image", she posted on Telegram.

Considering the favorable images of Biden that the same publication displayed on the cover, despite his physical infirmity, the story is simply self-incriminating for Time", she said.

The response to his queries – why did they choose this, and why? – may be something to do with artistically representing a feeling of authority says Carly Earl, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

"The actual photo itself is well-executed," she notes. "They selected this photo because they wanted Trump to look impressive. Looking up at a person creates an impression of their importance and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost a bit ethereal. It's rare you see pictures of him in such a peaceful state – the photo appears gentle."

Trump’s hair appears to “disappear” because the light from behind 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, "one cannot constantly gratify the individual in question."

"No one likes being shot from underneath, and even if all of the artistic aspects of the image are highly effective, the aesthetics are unflattering."

The Guardian reached out to the periodical for feedback.