'The all-time low': Donald Trump lashes out at Time's 'super bad' cover picture.

It is a glowing story in a publication that Donald Trump has consistently praised – but for one catch. The cover picture, he stated, "may be the Worst of All Time".

Time's praise to Trump's role in mediating a ceasefire in Gaza, leading its 10 November issue, was paired with a photo of Trump taken from below while the sun positioned behind him.

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

"Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the photo may be the most awful ever", the president posted on his preferred network.

“My hair was erased, and then there was a shape over my head that appeared as a hovering crown, but quite miniature. Very odd! I have consistently disliked being photographed from below, but this is a super bad image, and it deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”

The president has expressed clear his wish to appear on Time’s cover and accomplished it multiple times in the past year. The obsession has extended to his golf courses – previously, the editors demanded to remove fabricated front pages on display at a few of his establishments.

This issue's photograph was shot by a photographer for Bloomberg at the White House on October 5.

The perspective highlighted negatively the president's jawline and throat – an opening that the governor of California Gavin Newsom seized, with his press office posting a modified photo with the offending area obscured.

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Meanwhile, a defence of his portrayal has been offered by an unexpected source: the spokesperson at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs stepped in to denounce the "revealing" picture decision.

"It’s astonishing: a photograph reveals far more about those who selected it than about the person in it. Only disturbed individuals, people filled with spite and resentment –maybe even degenerates – could have selected such an image", she posted on her social channel.

In light of the positive pictures of Biden that the periodical displayed on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the situation is self-revealing for Time", she said.

The answer to his queries – why did they choose this, and why? – could be related to innovatively depicting a feeling of authority according to a picture editor, a media professional.

The photograph technically is professionally taken," she says. "They selected this photo because they wanted the president to look commanding. Looking up at a person gives a sense of their grandeur and his expression actually looks contemplative and almost slightly angelic. It’s not often you see images of the president in such a calm instance – the image has a softness to it."

Trump’s hair looks erased because the sunlight behind him has washed out that area of the image, creating a halo effect, she says. Although the feature's heading complements Trump’s expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the person photographed."

Nobody enjoys being shot from underneath, and although all of the conceptual elements of the image are highly effective, the appearance are not complimentary."

The Guardian reached out to Time magazine for a statement.