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It is a favorable story in a periodical that the president has frequently admired – with one exception. The front-page image, he stated, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time's tribute to Donald Trump's part in mediating a Gaza ceasefire, leading its 10 November issue, was presented alongside a image of Trump taken from below while the sun shining from the back.

The effect, he says, is ""extremely poor".

"Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the photo may be the lowest quality in history", Trump wrote on his preferred network.

“They removed my hair, and then had an object hovering on top of my head that looked like a hovering tiara, but an extremely small one. Truly strange! I never liked taking pictures from low perspectives, but this is a extremely poor picture, and merits public condemnation. Why did they do this, and why?”

The president has expressed obvious his ambition to feature on the cover of Time and accomplished it four times last year. The obsession has reached the president's resorts – previously, the editors demanded to remove fake issues exhibited in several of his venues.

This issue's photograph was captured by a photographer for Bloomberg at the White House on 5 October.

Its angle did no favours for his chin and neck area – an opening that California governor Newsom did not miss, with his communications team tweeting a version with the offending area obscured.

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Simultaneously, a defense of the president’s appearance has been offered by unusual quarters: the director of information at the Russian foreign ministry came forward to criticise the "damaging" picture decision.

It's amazing: a photograph says more about those who picked it than about the individual pictured. Just unwell persons, people obsessed with malice and resentment –perhaps even perverts – could have picked this picture", she shared on her social channel.

In light of the positive pictures of Biden that the periodical displayed on the cover, notwithstanding his health issues, the case is self-damaging for the magazine", she said.

The explanation for the president's inquiries – what did the editors intend, and why? – might involve creatively capturing a sense of power according to an imaging expert, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The image itself is professionally taken," she says. "They picked this image because they wanted Trump to look heroic. Gazing upward evokes a feeling of their grandeur and his expression actually looks contemplative and almost slightly angelic. It’s not often you see images of the president in such a calm instance – the image has a softness to it."

Trump’s hair looks erased because the sunlight behind him has overexposed that part of the image, producing a glowing aura, she explains. Although the feature's heading complements the president's look in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the individual in question."

Few people appreciate being captured from low angles, and even if all of the artistic aspects of the image are very strong, the visual appeal are not flattering."

The publication contacted Time magazine for comment.