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It is a positive story in a magazine that Trump has long exalted – but for one catch. The front-page image, Trump declared, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time's praise to Trump's role in mediating a Gaza ceasefire, featured on its November 10 cover, was accompanied by a photo of Trump shot from a low angle and with the sun shining from the back.

The outcome, the president asserts, is "super bad".

"Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the image may be the Worst of All Time", he shared on his preferred network.

“My hair was obscured, and then there was something floating my head that seemed like a hovering crown, but extremely small. Truly strange! I have consistently disliked being captured from low angles, but this is a super bad image, and it merits criticism. What are they doing, and why?”

The president has expressed clear his wish to be pictured on Time’s cover and did so four times last year. The preoccupation has made it as far as Trump’s golf clubs – previously, the editors demanded to remove fake issues on display at a few of his establishments.

The most recent cover image was shot by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the White House on October 5.

The perspective was unflattering to Trump’s chin and neck – a chance that California governor Gavin Newsom did not miss, with the governor's office sharing an altered image with the criticized section obscured.

{The hostages from Israel detained in Gaza have been released under the initial stage of Donald Trump's peace plan, together with a release of Palestinian detainees. The deal might turn into a major success of Trump's second term, and it could mark a key shift for that part of the world.

Simultaneously, a support for his portrayal has come from a surprising origin: the spokesperson at Moscow's diplomatic office intervened to condemn the "self-incriminating" picture decision.

It's remarkable: a photo reveals far more about those who picked it than about the individual pictured. Only sick people, people driven by hatred and animosity –perhaps even perverts – could have chosen such a photo", Maria Zakharova wrote on her social channel.

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

The response to his queries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – may be something to do with creatively capturing a feeling of authority stated by an imaging expert, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The image itself is well-executed," she says. "They selected this photo because they wanted trump to look heroic. Gazing upward evokes a feeling of their majesty and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost slightly angelic. It's uncommon you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the image has a softness to it."

His hair seems to vanish because the light from behind has bleached that section of the image, producing a glowing aura, she adds. Even though the article's title complements the president's look in the image, "you can’t always please the individual in question."

Nobody enjoys being photographed from below, and while all of the conceptual elements of the image are highly effective, the aesthetics are not complimentary."

The news outlet contacted the periodical for a statement.