'The all-time low': Trump criticizes Time's 'extremely poor' cover picture.

It is a glowing article in a publication that the president has long exalted – with one exception. The cover picture, the president decreed, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time magazine's tribute to the president's involvement in facilitating a Gaza ceasefire, featured on its November 10 cover, was presented alongside a image of Trump captured from underneath while the sun positioned behind him.

The outcome, Trump claims, is ""terrible".

"Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the image may be the Worst of All Time", Trump wrote on his preferred network.

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had a shape drifting on top of my head that appeared as a floating crown, but an remarkably little one. Quite bizarre! I never liked taking pictures from low perspectives, but this is a terrible picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown obvious his ambition to be pictured on Time’s cover and accomplished it on four occasions in the previous year. This fixation has extended to the president's resorts – in 2017, the publication requested to remove fake issues shown in a few of his establishments.

The most recent cover image was captured by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the White House on 5 October.

The shot's viewpoint did no favours for his chin and neck area – an opportunity that the governor of California Gavin Newsom took advantage of, with the governor's office sharing an altered image with the criticized section obscured.

{The hostages from Israel detained in Gaza have been freed under the initial stage of the president's diplomatic initiative, alongside a Palestinian prisoner release. The deal might turn into a signature achievement of the president's renewed tenure, and it could mark a strategic turning point for that part of the world.

At the same time, a defence of Trump's image has emerged from unusual quarters: the communications chief at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs came forward to criticise the "self-incriminating" image choice.

It's remarkable: a photo reveals far more about those who chose it than about the person in it. Just unwell persons, people filled with spite and animosity –perhaps even perverts – could have chosen such a photo", she shared on the messaging platform.

In light of the positive pictures of President Biden that the periodical displayed on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the story is simply self-incriminating for Time", she noted.

The response to his queries – why did they choose this, and why? – may be something to do with innovatively depicting a feeling of authority according to Carly Earl, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The photograph technically technically is good," she says. "They selected this photo because they wanted the president to look commanding. Staring up at someone evokes a feeling of their majesty and Trump’s face actually looks reflective and almost a bit ethereal. It's rare you see pictures of him in such a serene moment – the picture feels tender."

The president's hair seems to vanish because the sunlight behind him has bleached that section of the image, creating a halo effect, she explains. Even though the story’s headline pairs nicely with the president's look in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the individual in question."

"No one likes being photographed from below, and even if all of the conceptual elements of the image are quite powerful, the aesthetics are not flattering."

The Guardian approached the magazine for a statement.