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This is a glowing story in a magazine that Donald Trump has long exalted – with one exception. The magazine's cover photo, the president decreed, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time magazine's tribute to Donald Trump's part in brokering a truce for Gaza, featured on its November 10 cover, was paired with a image of Trump shot from a low angle and with the sun positioned behind him.

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

"Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the photo may be the Worst of All Time", the president posted on his social media platform.

“My hair was erased, and then there was an object above my head that looked like a hovering crown, but very tiny. Really weird! I have always hated being photographed from below, but this is a super bad image, and it should be denounced. What is their goal, and why?”

The president has expressed clear his wish to appear on Time’s cover and did so on four occasions in the previous year. The obsession has reached Trump’s golf clubs – years ago, the magazine asked him to remove fabricated front pages exhibited in a few of his establishments.

The latest edition’s photo was taken by a photographer for Bloomberg at the White House on 5 October.

Its angle highlighted negatively his chin and neck area – an opportunity that California governor Gavin Newsom seized, with the governor's office sharing an altered image with the offending area blurred.

{The hostages from Israel held in Gaza have been liberated under the opening part of Donald Trump's peace plan, together with a freeing of Palestinian inmates. The deal might turn into a defining accomplishment of Trump's second term, and it may represent a strategic turning point for that part of the world.

Meanwhile, a defence of Trump's image has been offered by an unexpected source: the communications chief at Moscow's diplomatic office came forward to criticise the "damaging" photo selection.

"It’s astonishing: a image says more about those who selected it than about the person in it. Just unwell persons, people obsessed with malice and resentment –perhaps even perverts – 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 situation is self-revealing for Time", she added.

The response to his queries – what did the editors intend, and why? – might involve innovatively depicting a impression of strength according to a picture editor, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The photograph technically is professionally taken," she says. "They selected this photo because they wanted trump to look impressive. Staring up at someone creates an impression of their grandeur and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost slightly angelic. It's rare you see pictures of him in such a calm instance – the picture feels tender."

The president's hair appears to “disappear” because the light from behind has bleached that section of the image, producing a glowing aura, she says. Even though the story’s headline complements the president's look in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the subject matter."

Nobody enjoys being shot from underneath, and even if all of the conceptual elements of the image are quite powerful, the visual appeal are not flattering."

The news outlet contacted the magazine for a statement.