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This is a glowing story in a periodical that Donald Trump has long exalted – but for one catch. The magazine's cover photo, he stated, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time magazine's tribute to Trump's role in facilitating a ceasefire in Gaza, leading its 10 November issue, was presented alongside a image of Trump taken from below while the sun behind his head.

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

"The publication wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the photo may be the most awful ever", Trump wrote on his social media platform.

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had an object hovering on top of my head that appeared as a hovering tiara, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a extremely poor picture, and deserves to be called out. Why did they do this, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown clear his wish to feature on Time’s cover and achieved this on four occasions in the previous year. The preoccupation has reached the president's resorts – previously, the publication requested to remove fabricated front pages exhibited in several of his venues.

This issue's photograph was shot by a photographer for Bloomberg at the presidential residence on October 5.

The perspective highlighted negatively Trump’s chin and neck – an opportunity that California governor Gavin Newsom did not miss, with his communications team tweeting a version with the offending area pixelated.

{The hostages from Israel detained in Gaza have been liberated under the initial stage of Donald Trump's peace plan, together with a freeing of Palestinian inmates. The deal may become a major success of Trump's second term, and it may represent a key shift for that part of the world.

At the same time, a defence of Trump's image has come from an unexpected source: the director of information at Moscow's diplomatic office intervened to criticise the "damaging" picture decision.

It's remarkable: a image says more about those who selected it than about the individual pictured. Only disturbed individuals, people filled with spite and animosity –perhaps even perverts – could have picked this picture", the official wrote on Telegram.

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

The response to the president's inquiries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – may be something to do with artistically representing a impression of strength stated by Carly Earl, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The image itself is well-executed," she explains. "They chose this shot because they wanted trump to look impressive. Staring up at someone evokes a feeling of their grandeur and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost slightly angelic. It's rare you see images of the president in such a peaceful state – the image has a softness to it."

The president's hair looks erased because the light from behind has overexposed that part of the image, generating a radiant circle, she explains. And, while the story’s headline pairs nicely with Trump’s expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the individual in question."

"No one likes being shot from underneath, and even if all of the artistic aspects of the image are highly effective, the appearance are not flattering."

The news outlet reached out to the periodical for feedback.