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This is a positive feature in a publication that Trump has frequently admired – except for one issue. The magazine's cover photo, the president decreed, ""could be the worst ever".

Time magazine's praise to the president's involvement in facilitating a truce for Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was paired with a photograph of the president captured from underneath while the sun shining from the back.

The result, he says, is ""terrible".

"The publication wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time", he shared on his preferred network.

“They eliminated my hair, and then had a shape drifting on top of my head that appeared as a floating crown, but an remarkably little one. Truly strange! I always disliked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a terrible picture, and deserves to be called out. Why did they do this, and why?”

The president has expressed no secret of his desire to be pictured on Time’s cover and did so four times last year. The preoccupation has extended to his golf courses – years ago, the magazine asked him to remove mocked up covers exhibited in a few of his establishments.

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

Its angle highlighted negatively his chin and neck area – an opening that California governor Gavin Newsom took advantage of, with his communications team posting a modified photo with the problematic part obscured.

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Simultaneously, a defense of Trump's image has come from unusual quarters: the spokesperson at the Russian foreign ministry intervened to denounce the "self-incriminating" picture decision.

"It’s astonishing: a photograph says more about those who picked it than about the individual pictured. Only disturbed individuals, people obsessed with malice and resentment –perhaps even perverts – could have chosen such a photo", the official shared on her social channel.

In light of the positive pictures of President Biden that the same publication used on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the situation is self-revealing for the publication", she said.

The answer to his queries – why did they choose this, and why? – may be something to do with innovatively depicting a impression of strength stated by Carly Earl, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The photograph technically technically is good," she notes. "They selected this photo because they wanted trump to look commanding. Staring up at someone creates an impression of their importance and the president's visage actually looks reflective and almost a bit ethereal. It's rare you see photos of Trump in such a peaceful state – the picture feels tender."

Trump’s hair appears to “disappear” because the light from behind has washed out that area of the image, producing a glowing aura, she adds. Although the story’s headline marries well with his facial expression in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the person photographed."

Nobody enjoys being shot from underneath, and while all of the artistic aspects of the image are highly effective, the aesthetics are unflattering."

The news outlet approached the periodical for a statement.