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It is a favorable story in a magazine that Donald Trump has long exalted – but for one catch. The magazine's cover photo, he stated, ""could be the worst ever".

Time's tribute to Donald Trump's part in facilitating a ceasefire in Gaza, leading its 10 November issue, was presented alongside a photograph of Trump taken from below and with the sun positioned behind him.

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

"Time wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the image may be the most awful ever", he shared on Truth Social.

“They removed my hair, and then had a shape drifting on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an very tiny one. Truly strange! I consistently avoided taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a extremely poor picture, and merits public condemnation. Why did they do this, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown no secret of his desire to feature on Time’s cover and achieved this four times last year. The preoccupation has extended to his golf courses – in 2017, the magazine asked him to remove fake issues on display at a few of his establishments.

This issue's photograph was captured by Graeme Sloane for a news agency at the presidential residence on October 5.

The perspective highlighted negatively Trump’s chin and neck – an opening that the governor of California Newsom seized, with his communications team tweeting a version with the offending area pixelated.

{The living Israeli hostages in Gaza have been freed under the first phase of Trump's ceasefire agreement, in exchange for a freeing of Palestinian inmates. The deal could be a major success of his next term, and it may represent a key shift for the Middle East.

At the same time, a support for Trump's image has come from an unexpected source: the communications chief at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs intervened to denounce the "revealing" image choice.

It's amazing: a photograph says more about those who selected it than about the individual pictured. Just unwell persons, people filled with spite and resentment –perhaps even perverts – could have chosen such a photo", the official wrote on her social channel.

Considering the favorable images of Biden that the same publication featured on the front, even with his age-related challenges, the case is self-damaging for the publication", she added.

The answer to Trump’s questions – why did they choose this, and why? – could be related to artistically representing a feeling of authority according to an imaging expert, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The photograph technically technically is good," she notes. "They selected this photo because they wanted trump to look impressive. Gazing upward creates an impression of their majesty and Trump’s face actually looks reflective 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."

His hair appears to “disappear” because the light from behind has washed out that area of the image, creating a halo effect, she explains. Even though the article's title marries well with Trump’s expression in the image, "you can’t always please the person photographed."

"No one likes being photographed from below, and although all of the artistic aspects of the image are quite powerful, the appearance are not complimentary."

The publication contacted the periodical for feedback.