'The worst of all time': Trump lashes out at Time magazine's 'extremely poor' cover photo.

This is a positive feature in a periodical that Donald Trump has consistently praised – but for one catch. The cover picture, Trump declared, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time's tribute to the president's involvement in brokering a truce for Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was paired with a photo of Trump taken from below while the sun positioned behind him.

The result, Trump claims, is ""extremely poor".

"The publication wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the photo may be the lowest quality in history", he shared on his social media platform.

“They removed my hair, and then had a shape drifting on top of my head that looked like a suspended coronet, but an remarkably little one. Really weird! I consistently avoided taking pictures from below viewpoints, but this is a extremely poor picture, and should be criticized. Why did they do this, and why?”

Trump has made clear his wish to be pictured on Time’s cover and achieved this four times last year. The obsession has extended to the president's resorts – years ago, the magazine asked him to remove fabricated front pages shown in several of his venues.

The latest edition’s photo was taken by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the presidential residence on the fifth of October.

The perspective was unflattering to Trump’s chin and neck – an opportunity that California governor Gavin Newsom seized, with his communications team posting a modified photo with the problematic part obscured.

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At the same time, a defence of the president’s appearance has emerged from a surprising origin: the communications chief at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs intervened to criticise the "revealing" image choice.

It's amazing: a image reveals far more about those who chose it than about the person in it. Only disturbed individuals, people filled with spite and resentment –possibly even deviants – could have picked this picture", she wrote on Telegram.

In light of the positive pictures of President Biden that that magazine used on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the case is self-damaging for the magazine", she noted.

The explanation for the president's inquiries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – might involve artistically representing a impression of strength according to an imaging expert, a media professional.

The image itself is well-executed," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted the president to look impressive. Looking up at a person evokes a feeling of their importance and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost somewhat divine. It's rare you see pictures of him in such a calm instance – the picture feels tender."

Trump’s hair seems to vanish because the sunlight behind him has bleached that section of the image, creating a halo effect, she says. Although the story’s headline marries well with the president's look in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the person photographed."

Few people appreciate being photographed from below, and although all of the artistic aspects of the image are highly effective, the visual appeal are not complimentary."

The Guardian reached out to Time magazine for comment.