'The all-time low': Trump rails against Time's 'super bad' cover photo.

It is a positive story in a magazine that Donald Trump has consistently praised – with one exception. The magazine's cover photo, he stated, ""could be the worst ever".

Time's praise to Trump's role in facilitating a ceasefire in Gaza, featured on its November 10 cover, was presented alongside a image of the president shot from a low angle and with the sun shining from the back.

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

"The publication wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the lowest quality in history", the president posted on his preferred network.

“My hair was ‘disappeared’, and then there was a shape over my head that looked like a floating crown, but extremely small. Very odd! I have always hated being photographed from below, but this is a extremely poor image, and it deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown obvious his ambition to feature on the cover of Time and did so multiple times in the past year. The obsession has reached his golf courses – in 2017, the magazine asked him to remove mocked up covers exhibited in several of his venues.

The latest edition’s photo was shot by a photographer for Bloomberg at the presidential residence on the fifth of October.

The perspective was unflattering to Trump’s chin and neck – an opportunity that the governor of California Gavin Newsom did not miss, with his communications team sharing an altered image with the offending area pixelated.

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Simultaneously, a defense of his portrayal has emerged from an unexpected source: the director of information at Moscow's diplomatic office stepped in to condemn the "self-incriminating" image choice.

It's amazing: a image exposes those who picked it than about the person in it. Only sick people, people filled with spite and resentment –maybe even degenerates – could have selected such an image", the official wrote on Telegram.

"And given the complimentary photos of President Biden that that magazine displayed on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the case is self-damaging for the publication", she added.

The response to his queries – what did the editors intend, and why? – could be related to creatively capturing a sense of power stated by a picture editor, a media professional.

"The actual photo itself is well-executed," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted Trump to look impressive. Staring up at someone evokes a feeling of their grandeur and the president's visage actually looks reflective and almost a bit ethereal. It's uncommon you see photos of Trump in such a serene moment – the image has a softness to it."

Trump’s hair seems to vanish because the rear illumination has overexposed that part of the image, producing a glowing aura, she adds. And, while the article's title pairs nicely with Trump’s expression in the image, "you can’t always please the person photographed."

Nobody enjoys being shot from underneath, and while all of the conceptual elements of the image are highly effective, the aesthetics are unflattering."

The Guardian reached out to the magazine for feedback.