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It is a positive article in a publication that Donald Trump has consistently praised – with one exception. The cover picture, the president decreed, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time magazine's tribute to Donald Trump's part in facilitating a Gaza ceasefire, featured on its November 10 cover, was paired with a photograph of Trump captured from underneath and with the sun shining from the back.

The outcome, he says, is "super bad".

"The publication wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the image may be the lowest quality in history", he shared on his social media platform.

“My hair was obscured, and then there was a shape over my head that appeared as a hovering crown, but very tiny. Truly strange! I have never liked being captured from low angles, but this is a awful image, and it deserves to be called out. What is their goal, and why?”

The president has expressed obvious his ambition to appear on Time magazine's front page and accomplished it on four occasions in the previous year. The obsession has made it as far as the president's resorts – years ago, the magazine asked him to remove fake issues on display at some of his properties.

This issue's photograph was taken by Graeme Sloane for a news agency at the presidential residence on 5 October.

The perspective was unflattering to the president's jawline and throat – a chance that the governor of California Gavin Newsom did not miss, with the governor's office tweeting a version with the offending area blurred.

{The hostages from Israel in Gaza have been freed under the initial stage of Donald Trump's peace plan, alongside a Palestinian prisoner release. This agreement may become a major success of the president's renewed tenure, and it could mark a key shift for the Middle East.

Meanwhile, a support for the president’s appearance has emerged from unusual quarters: the communications chief at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs came forward to condemn the "self-incriminating" picture decision.

It's amazing: a image exposes those who picked it than about the person in it. Only sick people, people obsessed with malice and animosity –possibly even deviants – could have chosen such a photo", she posted on the messaging platform.

In light of the positive pictures of Biden that the same publication displayed on the cover, notwithstanding his health issues, the case is self-damaging for Time", she noted.

The explanation for his queries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – might involve artistically representing a sense of power according to Carly Earl, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The image itself is professionally taken," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted the president to look commanding. Staring up at someone gives a sense of their majesty and Trump’s face actually looks reflective and almost a bit ethereal. It's rare you see images of the president in such a peaceful state – the photo appears gentle."

His hair seems to vanish because the light from behind has overexposed that part of the image, generating a radiant circle, she explains. Although the story’s headline 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 even if all of the thematic components of the image are very strong, the appearance are not flattering."

The publication approached the periodical for a statement.