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It is a favorable feature in a publication that the president has frequently admired – with one exception. The cover picture, Trump declared, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time magazine's paean to the president's involvement in facilitating a truce for Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was presented alongside a photograph of the president taken from below and with the sun shining from the back.

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

"The publication wrote a relatively good story about me, but the image may be the most awful ever", he shared on Truth Social.

“My hair was ‘disappeared’, and then there was an object above my head that looked like a floating crown, but quite miniature. Very odd! I have always hated being photographed from below, but this is a awful image, and it deserves to be called out. What is their goal, and why?”

Trump has made no secret of his desire to be pictured on Time’s cover and accomplished it four times last year. The obsession has reached Trump’s golf clubs – previously, the editors demanded to remove fake issues shown in some of his properties.

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

The perspective was unflattering to the president's jawline and throat – a chance that the governor of California Newsom seized, with his press office tweeting a version with the criticized section pixelated.

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Meanwhile, a defense of the president’s appearance has emerged from a surprising origin: the spokesperson at Moscow's diplomatic office intervened to denounce the "revealing" photo selection.

It's remarkable: a image says more about those who selected it than about the person in it. Just unwell persons, people driven by hatred and hatred –possibly even deviants – could have chosen such a photo", the official wrote on her social channel.

In light of the positive pictures of President Biden that the periodical used on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the story is simply self-incriminating for Time", she noted.

The response to Trump’s questions – 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 photograph technically is professionally taken," she says. "They chose this shot because they wanted Trump to look commanding. Staring up at someone gives a sense of their importance and Trump’s face actually looks contemplative and almost a bit ethereal. It’s not often you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the image has a softness to it."

His hair seems to vanish because the sunlight behind him has washed out that area of the image, generating a radiant circle, she explains. Even though the story’s headline marries well with his facial expression in the image, "you can’t always please the subject matter."

Nobody enjoys being captured from low angles, and while all of the conceptual elements of the image are highly effective, the appearance are unflattering."

The publication contacted the magazine for a statement.