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

It is a positive article in a periodical that the president has long exalted – but for one catch. The cover picture, Trump declared, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time's praise to the president's involvement in facilitating a Gaza ceasefire, leading its 10 November issue, was paired with a image of the president shot from a low angle and with the sun behind his head.

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

"Time wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the image may be the Worst of All Time", Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“My hair was obscured, and then there was a shape over my head that appeared as a floating crown, but very tiny. Truly strange! I have always hated being captured from low angles, but this is a awful image, and it deserves to be called out. What is their goal, and why?”

Trump has made no secret of his desire to be pictured on the cover of Time and accomplished it on four occasions in the previous year. The obsession has extended to the president's resorts – in 2017, the editors demanded to remove mocked up covers on display at a few of his establishments.

The latest edition’s photo was taken by Graeme Sloane for a news agency at the White House on October 5.

The perspective was unflattering to the president's jawline and throat – an opening that the governor of California Gavin Newsom took advantage of, with the governor's office tweeting a version with the criticized section obscured.

{The living Israeli hostages detained in Gaza have been released under the initial stage of the president's diplomatic initiative, in exchange for a release of Palestinian detainees. The arrangement could be a major success of Trump's second term, and it may represent a pivotal moment for the region.

At the same time, a support for Trump's image has been offered by an unexpected source: the director of information at the Russian foreign ministry intervened to criticise the "self-incriminating" image choice.

"It’s astonishing: a photo exposes those who chose it than about the individual pictured. Just unwell persons, people filled with spite and resentment –possibly even deviants – could have chosen such a photo", the official shared on her social channel.

"And given the complimentary photos of Biden that the periodical featured on the front, notwithstanding his health issues, the situation is self-revealing for Time", she said.

The explanation for the president's inquiries – what did the editors intend, and why? – could be related to innovatively depicting a impression of strength says an imaging expert, an Australian publication's photo editor.

The photograph technically technically is good," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted Trump to look impressive. Staring up at someone creates an impression of their grandeur and his expression actually looks reflective and almost somewhat divine. It’s not often you see pictures of him in such a serene moment – the image has a softness to it."

Trump’s hair looks erased because the rear illumination has bleached that section of the image, creating a halo effect, she says. And, while the feature's heading marries well with Trump’s expression in the image, "you can’t always please the subject matter."

Few people appreciate being photographed from below, and while all of the conceptual elements of the image are very strong, the visual appeal are not complimentary."

The publication reached out to Time magazine for comment.