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This is a glowing story in a periodical that the president has long exalted – but for one catch. The magazine's cover photo, Trump declared, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time's praise to Donald Trump's part in brokering a truce for Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was paired with a image of Trump captured from underneath and with the sun behind his head.

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

"Time wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the image may be the lowest quality in history", he shared on his social media platform.

“My hair was ‘disappeared’, and then there was a shape over my head that appeared as a floating crown, but very tiny. Truly strange! I have consistently disliked being photographed from below, but this is a super bad image, and it merits criticism. What are they doing, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown no secret of his desire to appear on Time magazine's front page and did so four times last year. The preoccupation has reached his golf courses – in 2017, the magazine asked him to remove fabricated front pages shown in some of his properties.

The most recent cover image was captured by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the White House on October 5.

The perspective highlighted negatively the president's jawline and throat – a chance that the governor of California Gavin Newsom seized, with the governor's office sharing an altered image with the criticized section obscured.

{The Israeli captives detained in Gaza have been released under the first phase of the president's diplomatic initiative, in exchange for a Palestinian prisoner release. The deal could be a signature achievement of the president's renewed tenure, and it might signify a strategic turning point for the region.

Meanwhile, a support for the president’s appearance has come from a surprising origin: the spokesperson at Moscow's diplomatic office came forward to condemn the "revealing" photo selection.

"It’s astonishing: a image reveals far more about those who chose it than about the subject. Only disturbed individuals, people driven by hatred and hatred –maybe even degenerates – could have chosen such a photo", Maria Zakharova shared on the messaging platform.

Considering the favorable images of President Biden that the periodical featured on the front, even with his age-related challenges, the case is self-damaging for the magazine", she said.

The answer to his queries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – might involve creatively capturing a feeling of authority according to a picture editor, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The image itself is professionally taken," she explains. "They chose this shot because they wanted the president to look heroic. Looking up at a person gives a sense of their importance and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost somewhat divine. It's rare you see pictures of him in such a peaceful state – the photo appears gentle."

The president's hair appears to “disappear” because the sunlight behind him has bleached that section of the image, producing a glowing aura, she says. Although the article's title marries well with the president's look in the image, "you can’t always please the person photographed."

Nobody enjoys being captured from low angles, and while all of the thematic components of the image are quite powerful, the appearance are not complimentary."

The Guardian approached the periodical for feedback.