'The most terrible ever': Donald Trump lashes out at Time's 'super bad' cover photo.

This is a favorable article in a periodical that the president has consistently praised – with one exception. The cover picture, the president decreed, ""could be the worst ever".

Time magazine's praise to Trump's role in brokering a truce for Gaza, featured on its November 10 cover, was presented alongside a photo of the president captured from underneath while the sun shining from the back.

The effect, he says, is ""extremely poor".

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

“My hair was ‘disappeared’, and then there was something floating my head that seemed like a hovering crown, but extremely small. Really weird! I have always hated being photographed from below, but this is a extremely poor image, and it deserves to be called out. What is their goal, and why?”

The president has expressed clear his wish to be pictured on Time magazine's front page and did so multiple times in the past year. The obsession has reached his golf courses – in 2017, the editors demanded to remove fake issues exhibited in some of his properties.

The most recent cover image was captured by Graeme Sloane for a news agency at the presidential residence on October 5.

The perspective was unflattering to his chin and neck area – a chance that the governor of California Newsom did not miss, with his communications team tweeting a version with the criticized section blurred.

{The hostages from Israel held in Gaza have been freed under the opening part of Trump's ceasefire agreement, alongside a release of Palestinian detainees. The deal could be a defining accomplishment of Trump's second term, and it might signify a strategic turning point for that part of the world.

At the same time, a defence of Trump's image has emerged from unusual quarters: the spokesperson at Moscow's diplomatic office intervened to denounce the "self-incriminating" picture decision.

It's amazing: a photograph exposes those who picked it than about the person in it. Only sick people, people filled with spite and animosity –maybe even degenerates – could have picked this picture", Maria Zakharova shared on Telegram.

In light of the positive pictures of President Biden that that magazine featured on the front, despite his physical infirmity, the story is simply self-incriminating for Time", she said.

The response to his queries – what did the editors intend, and why? – could be related to artistically representing a feeling of authority stated by a picture editor, a media professional.

"The actual photo itself is well-executed," she says. "They selected this photo because they wanted the president to look impressive. Looking up at a person creates an impression of their majesty and his expression actually looks reflective and almost slightly angelic. It's rare you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the image has a softness to it."

His hair looks erased because the sunlight behind him has washed out that area of the image, producing a glowing aura, she says. Even though the story’s headline pairs nicely with Trump’s expression in the image, "you can’t always please the person photographed."

Nobody enjoys being captured from low angles, and while all of the artistic aspects of the image are highly effective, the aesthetics are not flattering."

The news outlet contacted the periodical for a statement.