'The worst of all time': Donald Trump criticizes Time's 'super bad' cover photo.

This is a favorable feature in a magazine that the president has consistently praised – except for one issue. The magazine's cover photo, the president decreed, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time magazine's paean to Donald Trump's part in mediating a Gaza ceasefire, featured on its November 10 cover, was paired with a photograph of Trump captured from underneath while the sun positioned behind him.

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

"Time wrote a relatively good story about me, but the photo may be the Worst of All Time", Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“They removed my hair, and then had an object hovering on top of my head that resembled a hovering tiara, but an very tiny one. Really weird! I consistently avoided taking pictures from low perspectives, but this is a extremely poor picture, and deserves to be called out. What is their intention, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown no secret of his desire to feature on Time magazine's front page and achieved this multiple times in the past year. The obsession has made it as far as the president's resorts – in 2017, the magazine asked him to remove fake issues shown in a few of his establishments.

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

Its angle highlighted negatively Trump’s chin and neck – an opportunity that the governor of California Gavin Newsom seized, with the governor's office posting a modified photo with the problematic part pixelated.

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At the same time, a support for the president’s appearance has been offered by unusual quarters: the communications chief at Moscow's diplomatic office intervened to criticise the "self-incriminating" picture decision.

It's amazing: a photo says more about those who selected it than about the individual pictured. Only sick people, people filled with spite and resentment –possibly even deviants – could have chosen such a photo", Maria Zakharova shared on the messaging platform.

Considering the favorable images of President Biden that the same publication displayed on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the story is simply self-incriminating for the magazine", she said.

The explanation for his queries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – might involve innovatively depicting a impression of strength according to a picture editor, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The image itself is professionally taken," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted Trump to look heroic. Looking up at a person creates an impression of their grandeur and his expression actually looks thoughtful and almost somewhat divine. It's uncommon you see images of the president in such a peaceful state – the image has a softness to it."

Trump’s hair looks erased because the sunlight behind him has bleached that section of the image, generating a radiant circle, she explains. And, while the feature's heading pairs nicely with the president's look in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the person photographed."

Few people appreciate being photographed from below, and even if all of the conceptual elements of the image are very strong, the appearance are not complimentary."

The news outlet contacted Time magazine for comment.