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This is a favorable article in a magazine that Donald Trump has consistently praised – but for one catch. The magazine's cover photo, the president decreed, ""could be the worst ever".

Time's paean to Trump's role in facilitating a ceasefire in Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was presented alongside a image of the president shot from a low angle while the sun positioned behind him.

The effect, the president asserts, is ""terrible".

"Time wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the photo may be the lowest quality in history", the president posted on Truth Social.

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had an object hovering on top of my head that resembled a hovering tiara, but an extremely small one. Quite bizarre! I always disliked taking pictures from low perspectives, but this is a super bad picture, and should be criticized. What is their intention, and why?”

The president has expressed obvious his ambition to feature on the cover of Time and achieved this four times last year. This fixation has reached the president's resorts – in 2017, the publication requested to remove fabricated front pages exhibited in some of his properties.

The latest edition’s photo was taken by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the presidential residence on October 5.

The perspective highlighted negatively Trump’s chin and neck – a chance that the governor of California Newsom took advantage of, with the governor's office sharing an altered image with the offending area blurred.

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Simultaneously, a defence of his portrayal has been offered by unusual quarters: the communications chief at the Russian foreign ministry stepped in to condemn the "self-incriminating" picture decision.

It's remarkable: a photo says more about those who selected it than about the person in it. Just unwell persons, people driven by hatred and resentment –perhaps even perverts – could have chosen such a photo", she wrote on her social channel.

Considering the favorable images of President Biden that the periodical featured on the front, notwithstanding his health issues, the situation is self-revealing for the magazine", she added.

The response to Trump’s questions – why did they choose this, and why? – may be something to do with artistically representing a sense of power according to a picture editor, a media professional.

The image itself is well-executed," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted trump to look heroic. Looking up at a person gives a sense of their grandeur and his expression actually looks thoughtful and almost a bit ethereal. It’s not often you see images of the president in such a serene moment – the picture feels tender."

The president's hair seems to vanish because the rear illumination has overexposed that part of the image, generating a radiant circle, she adds. And, while the story’s headline marries well with Trump’s expression in the image, "you can’t always please the person photographed."

"No one likes being shot from underneath, and although all of the conceptual elements of the image are very strong, the aesthetics are not complimentary."

The publication reached out to Time magazine for comment.