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It is a glowing feature in a magazine that Donald Trump has frequently admired – but for one catch. The magazine's cover photo, he stated, ""could be the worst ever".

Time magazine's tribute to the president's involvement in facilitating a Gaza ceasefire, featured on its November 10 cover, was paired with a photograph of the president shot from a low angle while the sun behind his head.

The effect, Trump claims, is ""extremely poor".

"Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the image may be the lowest quality in history", Trump wrote on his preferred network.

“They eliminated my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that appeared as a hovering tiara, but an remarkably little one. Truly strange! I never liked taking pictures from below viewpoints, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”

Trump has made no secret of his desire to be pictured on Time magazine's front page and did so on four occasions in the previous year. The preoccupation has made it as far as the president's resorts – years ago, the editors demanded to remove fake issues exhibited in some of his properties.

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

The perspective was unflattering to Trump’s chin and neck – a chance that California governor Gavin Newsom seized, with his communications team sharing an altered image with the offending area blurred.

{The living Israeli hostages in Gaza have been liberated under the initial stage of Donald Trump's peace plan, in exchange for a freeing of Palestinian inmates. This agreement may become a major success of his next term, and it may represent a strategic turning point for the region.

Meanwhile, a defense of Trump's image has been offered by a surprising origin: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs stepped in to condemn the "revealing" image choice.

"It’s astonishing: a photograph exposes those who chose it than about the person in it. Just unwell persons, people obsessed with malice and hatred –maybe even degenerates – could have chosen such a photo", the official posted on the messaging platform.

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

The response to Trump’s questions – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – may be something to do with innovatively depicting a impression of strength says a picture editor, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

"The actual photo itself is professionally taken," she says. "They chose this shot because they wanted trump to look commanding. Gazing upward creates an impression of their majesty and Trump’s face actually looks contemplative and almost slightly angelic. It's rare you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the photo appears gentle."

The president's hair looks erased because the sunlight behind him has washed out that area of the image, generating a radiant circle, she adds. Although the story’s headline pairs nicely with Trump’s expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the person photographed."

"No one likes being photographed from below, and while all of the thematic components of the image are quite powerful, the visual appeal are not complimentary."

The publication reached out to the periodical for feedback.