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

Time's tribute to Trump's role in brokering a Gaza ceasefire, headlining its early November edition, was presented alongside a photo of Trump captured from underneath while the sun behind his head.

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

"Time wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time", Trump wrote on his preferred network.

“My hair was erased, and then there was an object above my head that looked like a floating crown, but extremely small. Truly strange! I have consistently disliked being captured from low angles, but this is a extremely poor image, and it merits criticism. What is their goal, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown obvious his ambition to appear on the cover of Time and did so four times last year. The obsession has reached the president's resorts – years ago, the editors demanded to remove fake issues exhibited in some of his properties.

The latest edition’s photo was shot by Graeme Sloane for a news agency at the presidential residence on the fifth of October.

Its angle was unflattering to the president's jawline and throat – an opening that California governor Newsom seized, with his press office tweeting a version with the problematic part blurred.

{The Israeli captives detained in Gaza have been liberated under the initial stage of Trump's ceasefire agreement, together with a Palestinian prisoner release. This agreement could be a defining accomplishment of the president's renewed tenure, and it may represent a strategic turning point for the Middle East.

Simultaneously, a defence of the president’s appearance has emerged from unusual quarters: the director of information at the Russian foreign ministry intervened to denounce the "revealing" photo selection.

It's amazing: a image reveals far more about those who chose it than about the person in it. Only sick people, people driven by hatred and resentment –maybe even degenerates – could have picked this picture", the official posted on the messaging platform.

Considering the favorable images of President Biden that that magazine featured on the front, notwithstanding his health issues, the situation is self-revealing for Time", she added.

The response to the president's inquiries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – might involve creatively capturing a sense of power stated by an imaging expert, a media professional.

"The actual photo itself is professionally taken," she notes. "They chose this shot because they wanted the president to look commanding. Gazing upward gives a sense of their importance and his expression actually looks reflective and almost slightly angelic. It's rare you see photos of Trump in such a serene moment – the image has a softness to it."

His hair looks erased because the rear illumination has washed out that area of the image, generating a radiant circle, she adds. And, while the story’s headline complements his facial expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the person photographed."

Few people appreciate being captured from low angles, and while all of the artistic aspects of the image are highly effective, the appearance are unflattering."

The Guardian reached out to the magazine for comment.