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This is a glowing article in a publication that Donald Trump has frequently admired – but for one catch. The cover picture, Trump declared, ""could be the worst ever".

Time magazine's praise to the president's involvement in mediating a ceasefire in Gaza, featured on its November 10 cover, was presented alongside a image of Trump taken from below while the sun behind his head.

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

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

“They removed my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that appeared as a suspended coronet, but an remarkably little one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a extremely poor picture, and merits public condemnation. What is their intention, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown clear his wish to be pictured on the cover of Time and achieved this four times last year. The obsession has extended to his golf courses – previously, the publication requested to remove mocked up covers on display at several of his venues.

The latest edition’s photo was taken by a photographer for a news agency at the presidential residence on October 5.

The perspective highlighted negatively the president's jawline and throat – an opening that the governor of California Gavin Newsom took advantage of, with the governor's office tweeting a version with the criticized section pixelated.

{The living Israeli hostages in Gaza have been liberated under the first phase of Donald Trump's peace plan, alongside a release of Palestinian detainees. This agreement might turn into a major success of the president's renewed tenure, and it may represent a pivotal moment for that part of the world.

At the same time, a defense of his portrayal has been offered by a surprising origin: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs came forward to criticise the "revealing" picture decision.

It's remarkable: a photo exposes those who selected it than about the subject. Only sick people, people driven by hatred and hatred –maybe even degenerates – could have selected such an image", she wrote on her social channel.

"And given the complimentary photos of President Biden that the periodical used on the cover, notwithstanding his health issues, the situation is self-revealing for Time", she added.

The response to his queries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – could be related to innovatively depicting a sense of power stated by a picture editor, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The image itself technically is good," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted Trump to look impressive. Gazing upward gives a sense of their majesty and Trump’s face actually looks reflective and almost slightly angelic. It’s not often you see pictures of him in such a peaceful state – the image has a softness to it."

His hair seems to vanish because the sunlight behind him has washed out that area of the image, producing a glowing aura, she adds. Although the article's title marries well with Trump’s expression in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the individual in question."

Few people appreciate being photographed from below, and even if all of the thematic components of the image are quite powerful, the appearance are not complimentary."

The publication reached out to Time magazine for a statement.