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It is a positive story in a publication that the president has frequently admired – with one exception. The front-page image, he stated, ""could be the worst ever".

Time magazine's praise to Trump's role in brokering a ceasefire in Gaza, featured on its November 10 cover, was presented alongside a photograph of the president taken from below and with the sun shining from the back.

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

"The publication wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the image may be the most awful ever", Trump wrote on his social media platform.

“They eliminated my hair, and then had an object hovering on top of my head that resembled a hovering tiara, but an extremely small one. Quite bizarre! I always disliked taking pictures from low perspectives, but this is a extremely poor picture, and deserves to be called out. What is their intention, and why?”

Trump has made no secret of his desire to appear on Time magazine's front page and achieved this on four occasions in the previous year. This fixation has reached his golf courses – in 2017, the publication requested to remove fabricated front pages on display at several of his venues.

The latest edition’s photo was captured by a photographer for a news agency at the White House on the fifth of October.

The shot's viewpoint did no favours for the president's jawline and throat – a chance that California governor Newsom seized, with the governor's office sharing an altered image with the offending area obscured.

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Meanwhile, a defense of the president’s appearance has been offered by a surprising origin: the communications chief at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs came forward to condemn the "self-incriminating" image choice.

It's remarkable: a photograph says more about those who chose it than about the person in it. Only sick people, people driven by hatred and hatred –maybe even degenerates – could have chosen such a photo", she posted on her social channel.

In light of the positive pictures of Biden that the periodical displayed on the cover, despite his physical infirmity, the story is simply self-incriminating for the publication", she noted.

The response to the president's inquiries – why did they choose this, and why? – could be related to artistically representing a feeling of authority says Carly Earl, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The photograph technically technically is good," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted Trump to look heroic. Staring up at someone gives a sense of their majesty and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost slightly angelic. It’s not often you see pictures of him in such a calm instance – the photo appears gentle."

Trump’s hair appears to “disappear” because the light from behind has overexposed that part of the image, generating a radiant circle, she explains. Although the feature's heading complements the president's look in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the individual in question."

Nobody enjoys being shot from underneath, and while all of the artistic aspects of the image are quite powerful, the aesthetics are not complimentary."

The Guardian reached out to Time magazine for feedback.