'The worst of all time': Donald Trump lashes out at Time's 'extremely poor' cover picture.

It is a positive article in a magazine that the president has long exalted – except for one issue. The front-page image, the president decreed, ""could be the worst ever".

Time magazine's tribute to Trump's role in brokering a ceasefire in Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was presented alongside a photograph of Trump taken from below and with the sun shining from the back.

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

"The publication wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the photo may be the most awful ever", Trump wrote on his preferred network.

“My hair was obscured, and then there was an object above my head that appeared as a suspended diadem, but quite miniature. Very odd! I have always hated being shot from underneath, but this is a extremely poor image, and it merits criticism. What are they doing, and why?”

Trump has made obvious his ambition to feature on the cover of Time and accomplished it multiple times in the past year. The preoccupation has extended to Trump’s golf clubs – previously, the publication requested to remove mocked up covers on display at some of his properties.

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

The perspective was unflattering to his chin and neck area – an opening that the governor of California Gavin Newsom did not miss, with his communications team sharing an altered image with the offending area blurred.

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At the same time, a support for the president’s appearance has come from an unexpected source: the communications chief at the Russian foreign ministry intervened to condemn the "self-incriminating" photo selection.

"It’s astonishing: a photo exposes those who picked it than about the person in it. Only sick people, people driven by hatred and animosity –maybe even degenerates – could have selected such an image", she posted on the messaging platform.

Considering the favorable images of President Biden that the same publication displayed on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the case is self-damaging for the publication", she said.

The explanation for the president's inquiries – why did they choose this, and why? – could be related to artistically representing a feeling of authority says an imaging expert, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The image itself is well-executed," she notes. "They chose this shot because they wanted Trump to look heroic. Gazing upward gives a sense of their grandeur and his expression actually looks thoughtful and almost slightly angelic. It’s not often you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the photo appears gentle."

The president's hair appears to “disappear” because the rear illumination has washed out that area of the image, creating a halo effect, she says. And, while the feature's heading marries well with Trump’s expression in the image, "you can’t always please the person photographed."

Nobody enjoys being captured from low angles, and even if all of the thematic components of the image are highly effective, the aesthetics are not complimentary."

The publication contacted Time magazine for a statement.