'The worst of all time': Trump lashes out at Time magazine's 'super bad' cover picture.

It is a positive article in a magazine that Donald Trump has consistently praised – with one exception. The front-page image, Trump declared, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time's paean to the president's involvement in brokering a ceasefire in Gaza, leading its 10 November issue, was accompanied by a image of Trump shot from a low angle and with the sun behind his head.

The result, he says, is ""extremely poor".

"Time wrote a relatively good story about me, but the image may be the most awful ever", he shared on Truth Social.

“My hair was obscured, and then there was an object above my head that looked like a floating crown, but extremely small. Truly strange! I have always hated being shot from underneath, but this is a awful image, and it should be denounced. What are they doing, and why?”

The president has expressed clear his wish to be pictured on the cover of Time and accomplished it four times last year. This fixation has made it as far as Trump’s golf clubs – in 2017, the editors demanded to remove mocked up covers on display at several of his venues.

This issue's photograph was taken by a photographer for a news agency 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 Gavin Newsom did not miss, with the governor's office tweeting a version with the problematic part blurred.

{The hostages from Israel in Gaza have been freed under the initial stage of the president's diplomatic initiative, in exchange for a Palestinian prisoner release. This agreement might turn into a defining accomplishment of his next term, and it might signify a strategic turning point for that part of the world.

Meanwhile, a defence of his portrayal has come from an unexpected source: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs intervened to criticise the "revealing" image choice.

It's remarkable: a image reveals far more about those who picked it than about the subject. Only disturbed individuals, people filled with spite and hatred –maybe even degenerates – could have selected such an image", Maria Zakharova posted on her social channel.

In light of the positive pictures of President Biden that the same publication used on the cover, notwithstanding his health issues, the case is self-damaging for the publication", she added.

The response to the president's inquiries – why did they choose this, and why? – could be related to creatively capturing a feeling of authority says Carly Earl, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

"The actual photo itself technically is good," she explains. "They picked this image because they wanted Trump to look impressive. Gazing upward creates an impression of their majesty and the president's visage actually looks contemplative 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 looks erased because the light from behind has washed out that area of the image, producing a glowing aura, she says. Although the article's title pairs nicely with Trump’s expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the individual in question."

"No one likes being captured from low angles, and although all of the conceptual elements of the image are very strong, the appearance are not flattering."

The news outlet approached the magazine for a statement.