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It is a favorable feature in a periodical that the president has long exalted – but for one catch. The cover picture, the president decreed, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time's tribute to the president's involvement in facilitating a ceasefire in Gaza, leading its 10 November issue, was presented alongside a photograph of Trump taken from below and with the sun positioned behind him.

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

"Time Magazine wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the image may be the most awful ever", he shared on his preferred network.

“My hair was ‘disappeared’, and then there was a shape over my head that appeared as a floating crown, but quite miniature. Really weird! I have always hated being captured from low angles, but this is a extremely poor image, and it merits criticism. What are they doing, and why?”

The president has expressed obvious his ambition to feature on the cover of Time and achieved this on four occasions in the previous year. The preoccupation has reached Trump’s golf clubs – years ago, the editors demanded to remove fake issues exhibited in a few of his establishments.

This issue's photograph was captured by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the presidential residence on 5 October.

Its angle highlighted negatively the president's jawline and throat – a chance that the governor of California Gavin Newsom seized, with his press office sharing an altered image with the offending area blurred.

{The Israeli captives detained in Gaza have been liberated under the first phase of Donald Trump's peace plan, together with a freeing of Palestinian inmates. The deal may become a defining accomplishment of the president's renewed tenure, and it might signify a pivotal moment for the region.

Simultaneously, a defense of his portrayal has come from an unexpected source: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs stepped in to denounce the "damaging" photo selection.

It's amazing: a image exposes those who chose it than about the individual pictured. Only sick people, people driven by hatred and hatred –perhaps even perverts – could have picked this picture", she wrote on Telegram.

"And given the complimentary photos of Biden that that magazine displayed on the cover, despite his physical infirmity, the story is simply self-incriminating for the publication", she added.

The response to his queries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – may be something to do with artistically representing a impression of strength says an imaging expert, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The photograph technically is well-executed," she notes. "They picked this image because they wanted trump to look commanding. Gazing upward gives a sense of their majesty and Trump’s face actually looks reflective and almost a bit ethereal. It’s not often you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the picture feels tender."

His hair looks erased because the rear illumination has bleached that section of the image, creating a halo effect, she explains. Even though the story’s headline complements Trump’s expression in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the subject matter."

"No one likes being captured from low angles, and even if all of the thematic components of the image are highly effective, the appearance are unflattering."

The publication contacted the periodical for feedback.