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It is a positive story in a periodical that Donald Trump has consistently praised – except for one issue. The front-page image, he stated, "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 presented alongside a photo of Trump taken from below while the sun positioned behind him.

The effect, Trump claims, is ""terrible".

"The publication wrote a relatively good story about me, but the photo may be the lowest quality in history", he shared on his preferred network.

“They removed my hair, and then had a shape drifting on top of my head that appeared as a floating crown, but an very tiny one. Truly strange! I consistently avoided taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. Why did they do this, and why?”

The president has expressed obvious his ambition to be pictured on the cover of Time and did so on four occasions in the previous year. The preoccupation has reached the president's resorts – in 2017, the magazine asked him to remove fake issues shown in some of his properties.

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

The shot's viewpoint did no favours for his chin and neck area – an opportunity that the governor of California Gavin Newsom seized, with his communications team sharing an altered image with the problematic part obscured.

{The hostages from Israel detained in Gaza have been freed under the initial stage of Trump's ceasefire agreement, together with a release of Palestinian detainees. This agreement might turn into a defining accomplishment of his next term, and it may represent a key shift for the region.

Simultaneously, a defense of his portrayal has come from unusual quarters: the director of information at Moscow's diplomatic office stepped in to denounce the "revealing" photo selection.

It's amazing: a photograph exposes those who chose it than about the subject. Only sick people, people obsessed with malice and animosity –maybe even degenerates – could have selected such an image", the official shared on her social channel.

Considering the favorable images of Biden that the same publication displayed on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the story is simply self-incriminating for Time", she said.

The answer to his queries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – might involve innovatively depicting a feeling of authority according to Carly Earl, a media professional.

The photograph technically technically is good," she explains. "They selected this photo because they wanted Trump to look heroic. Staring up at someone gives a sense of their importance and Trump’s face actually looks thoughtful and almost a bit ethereal. It's uncommon you see photos of Trump in such a peaceful state – the picture feels tender."

His hair seems to vanish because the rear illumination has washed out that area of the image, creating a halo effect, she explains. Even though the story’s headline complements his facial expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the individual in question."

Few people appreciate being shot from underneath, and while all of the thematic components of the image are quite powerful, the appearance are not flattering."

The Guardian approached Time magazine for feedback.