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This is a glowing article in a periodical that the president has consistently praised – except for one issue. The front-page image, he stated, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time's praise to the president's involvement in mediating a Gaza ceasefire, leading its 10 November issue, was paired with a photo of the president captured from underneath and with the sun shining from the back.

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

"Time wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the picture may be the lowest quality in history", he shared on his preferred network.

“My hair was ‘disappeared’, and then there was something floating my head that appeared as a floating crown, but quite miniature. Truly strange! I have consistently disliked being shot from underneath, but this is a awful image, and it should be denounced. What is their goal, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown obvious his ambition to feature on Time’s cover and did so on four occasions in the previous year. The obsession has extended to Trump’s golf clubs – in 2017, the publication requested to remove fake issues exhibited in 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 highlighted negatively his chin and neck area – an opportunity that California governor Gavin Newsom took advantage of, with his communications team posting a modified photo with the criticized section obscured.

{The hostages from Israel in Gaza have been freed under the initial stage of the president's diplomatic initiative, together with a Palestinian prisoner release. The deal may become a defining accomplishment of the president's renewed tenure, and it might signify a strategic turning point for that part of the world.

Simultaneously, a defense of his portrayal has emerged from an unexpected source: the spokesperson at Moscow's diplomatic office stepped in to condemn the "revealing" picture decision.

It's remarkable: a image exposes those who selected it than about the subject. Only disturbed individuals, people driven by hatred and hatred –perhaps even perverts – could have selected such an image", she shared on Telegram.

"And given the complimentary photos of President Biden that that magazine displayed on the cover, notwithstanding his health issues, the case is self-damaging for the magazine", she noted.

The explanation for his queries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – may be something to do with innovatively depicting a feeling of authority according to an imaging expert, a media professional.

The photograph technically technically is good," she explains. "They picked this image because they wanted Trump to look impressive. Staring up at someone evokes a feeling of their majesty and the president's visage actually looks thoughtful and almost slightly angelic. It’s not often you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the photo appears gentle."

His hair seems to vanish because the light from behind has overexposed that part of the image, generating a radiant circle, she explains. And, while the feature's heading marries well with the president's look in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the person photographed."

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

The news outlet approached Time magazine for feedback.