'The most terrible ever': Trump criticizes Time magazine's 'extremely poor' cover photo.

This is a glowing feature in a magazine that the president has frequently admired – but for one catch. The cover picture, he stated, ""could be the worst ever".

Time magazine's tribute to Donald Trump's part in facilitating a ceasefire in Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was presented alongside a photograph of the president captured from underneath and with the sun behind his head.

The result, he says, is ""extremely poor".

"Time wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the photo may be the Worst of All Time", Trump wrote on his preferred network.

“My hair was erased, and then there was something floating my head that appeared as a hovering crown, but extremely small. Really weird! I have never liked being shot from underneath, but this is a super bad image, and it should be denounced. Why did they choose this, and why?”

Trump has made no secret of his desire to be pictured on Time’s cover and achieved this multiple times in the past year. This fixation has made it as far as the president's resorts – years ago, the publication requested to remove fabricated front pages on display at a few of his establishments.

This issue's photograph was taken 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 the governor of California Newsom took advantage of, with his communications team tweeting a version with the criticized section obscured.

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Simultaneously, a defence of his portrayal has been offered by a surprising origin: the communications chief at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs came forward to denounce the "self-incriminating" picture decision.

It's amazing: a image says more about those who chose it than about the subject. Only disturbed individuals, people driven by hatred and resentment –possibly even deviants – could have chosen such a photo", she shared on Telegram.

Considering the favorable images of Biden that the same publication used on the cover, notwithstanding his health issues, the situation is self-revealing for the publication", she noted.

The response to his queries – what did the editors intend, and why? – might involve artistically representing a impression of strength stated by an imaging expert, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The photograph technically is well-executed," she says. "They picked this image because they wanted Trump to look heroic. Gazing upward creates an impression of their importance and his expression actually looks reflective and almost somewhat divine. It's uncommon you see photos of Trump in such a peaceful state – the picture feels tender."

His hair appears to “disappear” because the light from behind has bleached that section of the image, creating a halo effect, she explains. Although the story’s headline marries well with the president's look in the image, "you can’t always please the individual in question."

"No one likes being photographed from below, and even if all of the thematic components of the image are highly effective, the aesthetics are not complimentary."

The Guardian contacted Time magazine for comment.