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

Time's tribute to Trump's role in facilitating a ceasefire in Gaza, featured on its November 10 cover, was presented alongside a image of the president shot from a low angle while the sun positioned behind him.

The result, Trump claims, is ""terrible".

"Time Magazine wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the image may be the lowest quality in history", he shared on Truth Social.

“My hair was obscured, and then there was something floating my head that appeared as a hovering crown, but very tiny. Truly strange! I have consistently disliked being shot from underneath, but this is a awful image, and it deserves to be called out. Why did they choose this, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown clear his wish to be pictured on the cover of Time and achieved this multiple times in the past year. This fixation has reached the president's resorts – previously, the publication requested to remove fabricated front pages exhibited in several of his venues.

The latest edition’s photo was captured by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the White House on 5 October.

The perspective did no favours for the president's jawline and throat – an opportunity that the governor of California Newsom took advantage of, with his communications team tweeting a version with the criticized section blurred.

{The Israeli captives in Gaza have been freed under the first phase of the president's diplomatic initiative, alongside a freeing of Palestinian inmates. This agreement may become a signature achievement of his next term, and it may represent a strategic turning point for that part of the world.

Simultaneously, a defense of Trump's image has emerged from a surprising origin: the communications chief at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs intervened to criticise the "self-incriminating" photo selection.

It's amazing: a image says more about those who chose it than about the person in it. Only disturbed individuals, people obsessed with malice and resentment –maybe even degenerates – could have chosen such a photo", Maria Zakharova wrote on the messaging platform.

In light of the positive pictures of Biden that the same publication featured on the front, even with his age-related challenges, the story is simply self-incriminating for the magazine", she noted.

The explanation for his queries – what did the editors intend, and why? – might involve innovatively depicting a sense of power stated by Carly Earl, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The photograph technically is professionally taken," she explains. "They chose this shot because they wanted trump to look commanding. Gazing upward creates an impression of their grandeur and his expression actually looks contemplative and almost somewhat divine. It's rare you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the picture feels tender."

Trump’s hair appears to “disappear” because the rear illumination has washed out that area of the image, producing a glowing aura, she says. Although the feature's heading pairs nicely with his facial expression in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the subject matter."

Few people appreciate being photographed from below, and although all of the conceptual elements of the image are quite powerful, the aesthetics are not complimentary."

The news outlet reached out to the periodical for feedback.