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This is a glowing article in a periodical that the president has frequently admired – except for one issue. The front-page image, the president decreed, ""could be the worst ever".

Time's paean to Trump's role in mediating a ceasefire in Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was paired with a image of the president captured from underneath and with the sun positioned behind him.

The outcome, Trump claims, is ""extremely poor".

"Time wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the image may be the lowest quality in history", Trump wrote on his preferred network.

“My hair was erased, and then there was an object above my head that seemed like a suspended diadem, but extremely small. Very odd! I have always hated being captured from low angles, but this is a super bad image, and it should be denounced. What is their goal, and why?”

The president has expressed obvious his ambition to feature on Time’s cover and did so multiple times in the past year. The preoccupation has extended to his golf courses – previously, the publication requested to remove fabricated front pages on display at a few of his establishments.

The latest edition’s photo was taken by a photographer for a news agency at the presidential residence on the fifth of October.

The shot's viewpoint highlighted negatively his chin and neck area – an opening that the governor of California Gavin Newsom seized, with his communications team sharing an altered image with the offending area obscured.

{The living Israeli hostages detained in Gaza have been liberated under the initial stage of Donald Trump's peace plan, together with a Palestinian prisoner release. This agreement may become a signature achievement of the president's renewed tenure, and it might signify a key shift for the Middle East.

At the same time, a defense of Trump's image has emerged from unusual quarters: the communications chief at Moscow's diplomatic office stepped in to denounce the "damaging" image choice.

It's amazing: a photo exposes those who selected it than about the individual pictured. Just unwell persons, people obsessed with malice and animosity –maybe even degenerates – could have picked this picture", Maria Zakharova posted on the messaging platform.

"And given the complimentary photos of Biden that the periodical featured on the front, despite his physical infirmity, the case is self-damaging for Time", she said.

The answer to the president's inquiries – what did the editors intend, and why? – may be something to do with artistically representing a sense of power stated by Carly Earl, a media professional.

The photograph technically technically is good," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted trump to look impressive. Gazing upward evokes a feeling of their importance and his expression actually looks contemplative and almost slightly angelic. It's uncommon you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the image has a softness to it."

The president's hair seems to vanish because the light from behind has washed out that area of the image, creating a halo effect, she says. Even though the story’s headline pairs nicely with Trump’s expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the subject matter."

Few people appreciate being captured from low angles, and even if all of the conceptual elements of the image are very strong, the appearance are unflattering."

The news outlet reached out to Time magazine for feedback.