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This is a favorable feature in a magazine that Donald Trump has frequently admired – except for one issue. The magazine's cover photo, he stated, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time's paean to Trump's role in mediating a ceasefire in Gaza, featured on its November 10 cover, was presented alongside a photograph of Trump taken from below while the sun positioned behind him.

The result, he says, is ""terrible".

"Time wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the image may be the Worst of All Time", Trump wrote on his social media platform.

“They removed my hair, and then had a shape drifting on top of my head that appeared as a suspended coronet, but an remarkably little one. Really weird! I always disliked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a extremely poor picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”

The president has expressed obvious his ambition to be pictured on Time’s cover and achieved this four times last year. The preoccupation has made it as far as the president's resorts – in 2017, the editors demanded to remove mocked up covers exhibited in several of his venues.

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

The shot's viewpoint did no favours for his chin and neck area – a chance that California governor Gavin Newsom did not miss, with his communications team sharing an altered image with the offending area obscured.

{The living Israeli hostages detained in Gaza have been freed under the first phase of Donald Trump's peace plan, together with a release of Palestinian detainees. The arrangement could be a major success of his next term, and it may represent a strategic turning point for the region.

Meanwhile, a defense of the president’s appearance has been offered by an unexpected source: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs stepped in to criticise the "revealing" picture decision.

It's amazing: a photograph reveals far more about those who picked it than about the individual pictured. Only disturbed individuals, people obsessed with malice and hatred –perhaps even perverts – could have selected such an image", the official posted on her social channel.

Considering the favorable images of Biden that the same publication used on the cover, despite his physical infirmity, the situation is self-revealing for Time", she said.

The response to the president's inquiries – what did the editors intend, and why? – could be related to creatively capturing a sense of power says an imaging expert, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The photograph technically is well-executed," she notes. "They selected this photo because they wanted the president to look impressive. Staring up at someone evokes a feeling of their importance and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost slightly angelic. It's rare you see images of the president in such a calm instance – the photo appears gentle."

Trump’s hair appears to “disappear” because the sunlight behind him has bleached that section of the image, producing a glowing aura, she says. And, while the article's title complements Trump’s expression in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the person photographed."

Nobody enjoys being captured from low angles, and even if all of the artistic aspects of the image are very strong, the appearance are unflattering."

The publication contacted the magazine for a statement.