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This is a positive article in a publication that the president has long exalted – except for one issue. The cover picture, the president decreed, ""might be the most terrible in history".

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

The result, the president asserts, is ""extremely poor".

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

“My hair was ‘disappeared’, and then there was something floating my head that appeared as a floating crown, but extremely small. Very odd! I have always hated being shot from underneath, but this is a super bad image, and it should be denounced. What are they doing, and why?”

The president has expressed obvious his ambition to be pictured on Time magazine's front page and did so on four occasions in the previous year. This fixation has reached his golf courses – in 2017, the publication requested to remove fabricated front pages exhibited in several of his venues.

The latest edition’s photo was shot by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the White House on the fifth of October.

The shot's viewpoint highlighted negatively Trump’s chin and neck – an opening that the governor of California Gavin Newsom seized, with his communications team sharing an altered image with the criticized section pixelated.

{The living Israeli hostages held in Gaza have been released under the first phase of Donald Trump's peace plan, together with a release of Palestinian detainees. This agreement might turn into a major success of the president's renewed tenure, and it could mark a pivotal moment for the region.

Meanwhile, a defence of Trump's image has emerged from unusual quarters: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs intervened to criticise the "revealing" picture decision.

It's amazing: a photograph exposes those who chose it than about the subject. Only sick people, people obsessed with malice and hatred –maybe even degenerates – could have chosen such a photo", Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram.

Considering the favorable images of Biden that that magazine used on the cover, despite his physical infirmity, the situation is self-revealing for Time", she said.

The answer to his queries – what did the editors intend, and why? – could be related to creatively capturing a impression of strength according to Carly Earl, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The image itself is well-executed," she notes. "They chose this shot because they wanted trump to look heroic. Staring up at someone gives a sense of their majesty and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost somewhat divine. It's uncommon you see images of the president in such a peaceful state – the photo appears gentle."

His hair looks erased because the light from behind has washed out that area of the image, producing a glowing aura, she says. Even though the article's title pairs nicely with the president's look in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the person photographed."

Few people appreciate being captured from low angles, and although all of the conceptual elements of the image are very strong, the visual appeal are unflattering."

The news outlet contacted Time magazine for a statement.