'The all-time low': Donald Trump lashes out at Time's 'extremely poor' cover image.

This is a positive story in a magazine that the president has frequently admired – with one exception. The front-page image, Trump declared, ""could be the worst ever".

Time's paean to Trump's role in mediating a truce for Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was presented alongside a photograph of the president taken from below and with the sun behind his head.

The result, he says, is "super bad".

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

“They removed my hair, and then had an object hovering on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Quite bizarre! I always disliked taking pictures from below viewpoints, but this is a terrible picture, and merits public condemnation. Why did they do this, and why?”

Trump has made no secret of his desire to appear on Time magazine's front page and did so four times last year. The obsession has made it as far as the president's resorts – in 2017, the publication requested to remove mocked up covers exhibited in a few of his establishments.

This issue's photograph was shot by a photographer for Bloomberg at the White House on the fifth of October.

The shot's viewpoint highlighted negatively Trump’s chin and neck – an opening that the governor of California Newsom took advantage of, with his press office sharing an altered image with the criticized section blurred.

{The Israeli captives held in Gaza have been released under the first phase of the president's diplomatic initiative, alongside a freeing of Palestinian inmates. The deal may become a major success of Trump's second term, and it might signify a strategic turning point for that part of the world.

Meanwhile, a defense of Trump's image has been offered by a surprising origin: the spokesperson at the Russian foreign ministry intervened to criticise the "revealing" picture decision.

It's amazing: a photo exposes those who picked it than about the person in it. Only disturbed individuals, people filled with spite and hatred –perhaps even perverts – could have chosen such a photo", she wrote on the messaging platform.

Considering the favorable images of Biden that the periodical featured on the front, notwithstanding his health issues, the situation is self-revealing for the magazine", she noted.

The response to Trump’s questions – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – might involve artistically representing a sense of power according to an imaging expert, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

"The actual photo itself is well-executed," she notes. "They selected this photo because they wanted trump to look heroic. Looking up at a person evokes a feeling of their grandeur and Trump’s face actually looks contemplative and almost somewhat divine. It's uncommon you see pictures of him in such a serene moment – the photo appears gentle."

The president's hair appears to “disappear” because the rear illumination has overexposed that part of the image, producing a glowing aura, she says. Although the feature's heading marries well with his facial expression in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the person photographed."

Nobody enjoys being captured from low angles, and although all of the conceptual elements of the image are quite powerful, the visual appeal are unflattering."

The Guardian reached out to the periodical for feedback.