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This is a positive feature in a publication that Trump has long exalted – except for one issue. The front-page image, Trump declared, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time magazine's paean to the president's involvement in mediating a ceasefire in Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was accompanied by a photo of the president taken from below while the sun positioned behind him.

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

"Time wrote a relatively good story about me, but the image may be the Worst of All Time", Trump wrote on his social media platform.

“My hair was erased, and then there was an object above my head that looked like a floating crown, but extremely small. Really weird! I have consistently disliked being captured from low angles, but this is a extremely poor image, and it should be denounced. Why did they choose this, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown clear his wish to be pictured on the cover of Time and accomplished it multiple times in the past year. The preoccupation has extended to the president's resorts – previously, the publication requested to remove mocked up covers on display at a few of his establishments.

The latest edition’s photo was captured by Graeme Sloane for a news agency at the White House on October 5.

Its angle highlighted negatively his chin and neck area – a chance that California governor Gavin Newsom took advantage of, with his communications team tweeting a version with the offending area obscured.

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Simultaneously, a defence of his portrayal has come from a surprising origin: the communications chief at the Russian foreign ministry stepped in to condemn the "revealing" image choice.

It's remarkable: a image exposes those who chose it than about the individual pictured. Only sick people, people obsessed with malice and animosity –maybe even degenerates – could have chosen such a photo", she wrote on the messaging platform.

"And given the complimentary photos of Biden that the same publication used on the cover, notwithstanding his health issues, the story is simply self-incriminating for the publication", she added.

The response to Trump’s questions – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – might involve innovatively depicting a feeling of authority says a picture editor, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The photograph technically is well-executed," she notes. "They selected this photo because they wanted the president to look heroic. Looking up at a person evokes a feeling of their grandeur and Trump’s face actually looks thoughtful and almost somewhat divine. It’s not often you see pictures of him in such a serene moment – the photo appears gentle."

Trump’s hair appears to “disappear” because the light from behind has bleached that section of the image, creating a halo effect, she adds. Even though the feature's heading marries well with his facial expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the subject matter."

Nobody enjoys being captured from low angles, and even if all of the conceptual elements of the image are quite powerful, the aesthetics are unflattering."

The publication contacted the periodical for a statement.