'The most terrible ever': Trump rails against Time's 'super bad' cover picture.

It is a glowing story in a publication that Donald Trump has consistently praised – except for one issue. The cover picture, Trump declared, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time magazine's praise to Trump's role in facilitating a truce for Gaza, headlining its early November edition, was accompanied by a photo of Trump shot from a low angle and with the sun positioned behind him.

The result, Trump claims, is "super bad".

"Time Magazine wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the image may be the Worst of All Time", Trump wrote on his preferred network.

“My hair was erased, and then there was an object above my head that seemed like a hovering crown, but very tiny. Really weird! I have consistently disliked being captured from low angles, but this is a awful image, and it should be denounced. Why did they choose this, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown no secret of his desire to be pictured on Time’s cover and accomplished it four times last year. The preoccupation has reached the president's resorts – in 2017, the publication requested to remove fabricated front pages exhibited in a few of his establishments.

The most recent cover image was shot by a photographer for a news agency at the White House on 5 October.

The perspective was unflattering to Trump’s chin and neck – an opening that the governor of California Gavin Newsom seized, with his communications team posting a modified photo with the offending area pixelated.

{The Israeli captives detained in Gaza have been freed under the initial stage of Trump's ceasefire agreement, alongside a release of Palestinian detainees. The arrangement may become a major success of his next term, and it could mark a key shift for the Middle East.

Meanwhile, a defense of Trump's image has come from an unexpected source: the spokesperson at Moscow's diplomatic office intervened to criticise the "self-incriminating" photo selection.

It's amazing: a photo says more about those who chose it than about the subject. Only disturbed individuals, people filled with spite and animosity –perhaps even perverts – could have chosen such a photo", the official shared on the messaging platform.

"And given the complimentary photos of Biden that that magazine featured on the front, despite his physical infirmity, the situation is self-revealing for the publication", she noted.

The response to his queries – why did they choose this, and why? – might involve creatively capturing a impression of strength stated by an imaging expert, an Australian publication's photo editor.

"The actual photo itself is well-executed," she says. "They chose this shot because they wanted the president to look heroic. Staring up at someone gives a sense of their importance and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost a bit ethereal. It's uncommon you see pictures of him in such a calm instance – the picture feels tender."

His hair appears to “disappear” because the rear illumination has overexposed that part of the image, generating a radiant circle, she explains. Even though the article's title pairs nicely with his facial expression in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the individual in question."

Few people appreciate being photographed from below, and although all of the artistic aspects of the image are highly effective, the aesthetics are unflattering."

The publication contacted the magazine for a statement.