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This is a positive feature in a periodical that Donald Trump has frequently admired – with one exception. The cover picture, the president decreed, ""could be the worst ever".

Time's tribute to Trump's role in brokering a Gaza ceasefire, headlining its early November edition, was paired with a photo of Trump shot from a low angle and with the sun positioned behind him.

The result, the president asserts, is ""extremely poor".

"The publication wrote a relatively good story about me, but the photo may be the Worst of All Time", he shared on his preferred network.

“They removed my hair, and then had an object hovering on top of my head that resembled a suspended coronet, but an extremely small one. Truly strange! I always disliked taking pictures from low perspectives, but this is a extremely poor picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”

The president has expressed obvious his ambition to be pictured on Time magazine's front page and achieved this multiple times in the past year. The obsession has made it as far as Trump’s golf clubs – previously, the magazine asked him to remove fabricated front pages shown in several of his venues.

This issue's photograph was taken by a photographer for Bloomberg at the presidential residence on October 5.

The perspective was unflattering to Trump’s chin and neck – an opening that the governor of California Newsom did not miss, with the governor's office tweeting a version with the problematic part obscured.

{The Israeli captives detained in Gaza have been liberated under the first phase of Trump's ceasefire agreement, alongside a freeing of Palestinian inmates. This agreement might turn into a defining accomplishment of the president's renewed tenure, and it might signify a key shift for the region.

Simultaneously, a support for his portrayal has come from a surprising origin: the director of information at Moscow's diplomatic office intervened to condemn the "damaging" picture decision.

It's remarkable: a image exposes those who chose it than about the subject. Only disturbed individuals, people driven by hatred and hatred –perhaps even perverts – could have picked this picture", the official wrote on Telegram.

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

The explanation for his queries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – could be related to artistically representing a feeling of authority according to a picture editor, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The image itself is well-executed," she notes. "They chose this shot because they wanted trump to look impressive. Looking up at a person gives a sense of their majesty and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost slightly angelic. It's rare you see photos of Trump in such a serene moment – the image has a softness to it."

His hair looks erased because the rear illumination has washed out that area of the image, creating a halo effect, she says. Although the story’s headline pairs nicely with his facial expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the person photographed."

Nobody enjoys being photographed from below, and while all of the thematic components of the image are quite powerful, the visual appeal are not complimentary."

The news outlet reached out to the periodical for feedback.