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It is a glowing feature in a publication that Trump has frequently admired – except for one issue. The cover picture, Trump declared, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time's praise to Trump's role in facilitating a truce for Gaza, leading its 10 November issue, was paired with a image of the president shot from a low angle and with the sun positioned behind him.

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

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

“My hair was obscured, and then there was an object above my head that seemed like a floating crown, but extremely small. Very odd! I have never liked being photographed from below, but this is a awful image, and it should be denounced. What are they doing, and why?”

The president has expressed obvious his ambition to feature on Time’s cover and did so four times last year. The obsession has made it as far as the president's resorts – in 2017, the publication requested to remove fabricated front pages shown in a few of his establishments.

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

The shot's viewpoint did no favours for the president's jawline and throat – a chance that the governor of California Newsom took advantage of, with his press office posting a modified photo with the criticized section blurred.

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Simultaneously, a defence of Trump's image has been offered by unusual quarters: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs came forward to criticise the "self-incriminating" image choice.

It's remarkable: a photograph reveals far more about those who picked it than about the individual pictured. Just unwell persons, people driven by hatred and hatred –perhaps even perverts – could have selected such an image", Maria Zakharova posted on Telegram.

"And given the complimentary photos of Biden that the periodical featured on the front, notwithstanding his health issues, the case is self-damaging for the publication", she noted.

The response to his queries – what did the editors intend, and why? – might involve artistically representing a impression of strength stated by a picture editor, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The photograph technically is well-executed," she explains. "They chose this shot because they wanted the president to look heroic. Gazing upward evokes a feeling of their importance and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost somewhat divine. It’s not often you see pictures of him in such a serene moment – the image has a softness to it."

The president's hair seems to vanish because the light from behind has washed out that area of the image, generating a radiant circle, she says. Even though the story’s headline marries well with the president's look in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the person photographed."

Few people appreciate being captured from low angles, and while all of the thematic components of the image are quite powerful, the visual appeal are not complimentary."

The publication approached the magazine for a statement.