'The most terrible ever': Donald Trump lashes out at Time's 'extremely poor' cover image.

This is a glowing feature in a periodical that the president has long exalted – except for one issue. The cover picture, he stated, ""could be the worst ever".

Time magazine's praise to Donald Trump's part in facilitating a Gaza ceasefire, leading its 10 November issue, was accompanied by a image of Trump taken from below and with the sun positioned behind him.

The result, the president asserts, is ""terrible".

"Time Magazine wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the photo may be the Worst of All Time", Trump wrote on his social media platform.

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had a shape drifting on top of my head that looked like a suspended coronet, but an very tiny one. Quite bizarre! I always disliked taking pictures from below viewpoints, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown no secret of his desire to be pictured on Time’s cover and accomplished it multiple times in the past year. The preoccupation has extended to his golf courses – previously, the magazine asked him to remove fabricated front pages shown in some of his properties.

The most recent cover image was captured by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the White House on October 5.

The perspective was unflattering to the president's jawline and throat – an opening that California governor Gavin Newsom did not miss, with his communications team posting a modified photo with the criticized section blurred.

{The hostages from Israel in Gaza have been liberated under the initial stage of Donald Trump's peace plan, together with a Palestinian prisoner release. The arrangement could be a signature achievement of Trump's second term, and it could mark a strategic turning point for the region.

Simultaneously, a defence of his portrayal has come from unusual quarters: the communications chief at Moscow's diplomatic office came forward to criticise the "self-incriminating" image choice.

It's amazing: a image reveals far more about those who chose it than about the person in it. Only sick people, people obsessed with malice and hatred –perhaps even perverts – could have picked this picture", Maria Zakharova posted on Telegram.

"And given the complimentary photos of Biden that the periodical displayed on the cover, despite his physical infirmity, the situation is self-revealing for the magazine", she said.

The explanation for Trump’s questions – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – may be something to do with creatively capturing a sense of power according to an imaging expert, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

"The actual photo itself technically is good," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted Trump to look heroic. Looking up at a person evokes a feeling of their grandeur and his expression actually looks reflective and almost slightly angelic. It’s not often you see pictures of him in such a peaceful state – the image has a softness to it."

The president's hair seems to vanish because the rear illumination has bleached that section of the image, producing a glowing aura, she adds. Although the feature's heading complements the president's look in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the subject matter."

"No one likes being captured from low angles, and although all of the artistic aspects of the image are highly effective, the aesthetics are not complimentary."

The Guardian reached out to the magazine for feedback.