'The all-time low': Donald Trump lashes out at Time magazine's 'super bad' cover photo.

It is a favorable article in a magazine that Donald Trump has consistently praised – with one exception. The front-page image, the president decreed, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time's praise to the president's involvement in mediating a ceasefire in Gaza, leading its 10 November issue, was accompanied by a photograph of Trump shot from a low angle while the sun positioned behind him.

The outcome, the president asserts, is "super bad".

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

“My hair was ‘disappeared’, and then there was a shape over my head that looked like a suspended diadem, but quite miniature. Really weird! I have consistently disliked being photographed from below, but this is a extremely poor image, and it deserves to be called out. Why did they choose this, and why?”

The president has expressed clear his wish to appear on Time’s cover and achieved this on four occasions in the previous year. The preoccupation has reached the president's resorts – in 2017, the editors demanded to remove mocked up covers shown in several of his venues.

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

The shot's viewpoint did no favours for the president's jawline and throat – an opportunity that the governor of California Newsom took advantage of, with his communications team sharing an altered image with the problematic part pixelated.

{The Israeli captives in Gaza have been released under the first phase of the president's diplomatic initiative, alongside a freeing of Palestinian inmates. This agreement may become a signature achievement of the president's renewed tenure, and it might signify a key shift for the region.

At the same time, a defense of the president’s appearance has been offered by a surprising origin: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs stepped in to criticise the "revealing" image choice.

It's amazing: a photograph exposes those who chose it than about the individual pictured. Only disturbed individuals, people obsessed with malice and animosity –perhaps even perverts – could have picked this picture", she shared on her social channel.

"And given the complimentary photos of Biden that the periodical displayed 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? – may be something to do with 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 impressive. Staring up at someone evokes a feeling of their grandeur and the president's visage actually looks thoughtful and almost slightly angelic. It’s not often you see pictures of him in such a peaceful state – the picture feels tender."

Trump’s hair appears to “disappear” because the sunlight behind him has bleached that section of the image, generating a radiant circle, she says. Although the feature's heading complements the president's look in the image, "you can’t always please the person photographed."

"No one likes being shot from underneath, and while all of the conceptual elements of the image are very strong, the aesthetics are unflattering."

The news outlet contacted Time magazine for a statement.