'The all-time low': Trump criticizes Time magazine's 'super bad' cover image.

It is a favorable story in a periodical that Trump has consistently praised – with one exception. The magazine's cover photo, Trump declared, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time magazine's paean to Donald Trump's part in facilitating a truce for Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was paired with a photograph of Trump taken from below and with the sun positioned behind him.

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

"Time wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the picture may be the most awful ever", the president posted on his preferred network.

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had an object hovering on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an remarkably little one. Quite bizarre! I always disliked taking pictures from below viewpoints, but this is a extremely poor picture, and should be criticized. What is their intention, and why?”

Trump has made clear his wish to be pictured on Time’s cover and achieved this on four occasions in the previous year. The obsession has reached Trump’s golf clubs – previously, the publication requested to remove fabricated front pages exhibited in several of his venues.

The most recent cover image was shot by a photographer for a news agency at the presidential residence on October 5.

The shot's viewpoint was unflattering to his chin and neck area – an opportunity that California governor Newsom took advantage of, with his press office sharing an altered image with the problematic part pixelated.

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Meanwhile, a defense of his portrayal has been offered by an unexpected source: the spokesperson at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs intervened to denounce the "revealing" picture decision.

"It’s astonishing: a image says more about those who picked it than about the person in it. Just unwell persons, people driven by hatred and hatred –perhaps even perverts – could have picked this picture", Maria Zakharova shared on her social channel.

"And given the complimentary photos of President Biden that the same publication displayed on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the story is simply self-incriminating for the publication", she noted.

The response to Trump’s questions – why did they choose this, and why? – may be something to do with innovatively depicting a sense of power says a picture editor, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The photograph technically is professionally taken," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted the president to look impressive. Gazing upward evokes a feeling of their majesty and Trump’s face actually looks contemplative and almost slightly angelic. It's rare you see pictures of him in such a peaceful state – the picture feels tender."

Trump’s hair looks erased because the sunlight behind him has overexposed that part of the image, generating a radiant circle, she says. And, while the story’s headline complements the president's look in the image, "you can’t always please the person photographed."

Nobody enjoys being shot from underneath, and although all of the thematic components of the image are quite powerful, the visual appeal are not complimentary."

The Guardian contacted the periodical for a statement.