'The worst of all time': Trump rails against Time magazine's 'extremely poor' cover image.

It is a favorable article in a magazine that the president has frequently admired – with one exception. The cover picture, he stated, ""could be the worst ever".

Time's praise to the president's involvement in mediating a Gaza ceasefire, featured on its November 10 cover, was accompanied by a photo of the president taken from below and with the sun behind his head.

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

"The publication wrote a fairly positive story about me, but the photo may be the lowest quality in history", the president posted on his preferred network.

“They removed my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that appeared as a floating crown, but an remarkably little one. Quite bizarre! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and merits public condemnation. What are they doing, and why?”

The president has expressed obvious his ambition to feature on the cover of Time and did so multiple times in the past year. The preoccupation has made it as far as the president's resorts – years ago, the editors demanded to remove fake issues on display at some of his properties.

The most recent cover image was shot by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the White House on October 5.

Its angle highlighted negatively his chin and neck area – an opening that the governor of California Newsom did not miss, with his communications team tweeting a version with the offending area obscured.

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At the same time, a defense of the president’s appearance has emerged from a surprising origin: the communications chief at Moscow's diplomatic office stepped in to condemn the "self-incriminating" image choice.

"It’s astonishing: a photograph says more about those who selected it than about the person in it. Only disturbed individuals, people driven by hatred and resentment –perhaps even perverts – could have chosen such a photo", she posted on her social channel.

In light of the positive pictures of Biden that the periodical featured on the front, even with his age-related challenges, the case is self-damaging for the publication", she added.

The answer to the president's inquiries – why did they choose this, and why? – could be related to innovatively depicting a sense of power stated by an imaging expert, a media professional.

"The actual photo itself is professionally taken," she explains. "They picked this image because they wanted Trump to look commanding. Staring up at someone evokes a feeling of their importance and his expression actually looks contemplative and almost a bit ethereal. It's uncommon you see photos of Trump in such a calm instance – the image has a softness to it."

His hair appears to “disappear” because the sunlight behind him has washed out that area of the image, producing a glowing aura, she adds. And, while the article's title marries well with his facial expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the subject matter."

Nobody enjoys being photographed from below, and even if all of the thematic components of the image are highly effective, the appearance are unflattering."

The Guardian approached the periodical for comment.