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This is a favorable story in a magazine that Donald Trump has frequently admired – except for one issue. The cover picture, Trump declared, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time's tribute to Donald Trump's part in facilitating a Gaza ceasefire, leading its 10 November issue, was accompanied by a photo of the president captured from underneath and with the sun behind his head.

The effect, he says, is "super bad".

"Time wrote a quite favorable story about me, but the image may be the most awful ever", the president posted on his preferred network.

“They removed my hair, and then had a shape drifting on top of my head that looked like a suspended coronet, but an extremely small one. Truly strange! I never liked taking pictures from below viewpoints, but this is a extremely poor picture, and merits public condemnation. What are they doing, and why?”

The president has expressed clear his wish to appear on Time magazine's front page and achieved this on four occasions in the previous year. The obsession has reached Trump’s golf clubs – previously, the magazine asked him to remove fake issues exhibited in a few of his establishments.

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

The perspective was unflattering to Trump’s chin and neck – an opening that California governor Newsom took advantage of, with his press office tweeting a version with the offending area pixelated.

{The hostages from Israel in Gaza have been liberated under the opening part of Donald Trump's peace plan, in exchange for a release of Palestinian detainees. The deal might turn into a signature achievement of the president's renewed tenure, and it might signify a key shift for the region.

Meanwhile, a defense of Trump's image has come from a surprising origin: the spokesperson at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs stepped in to condemn the "self-incriminating" photo selection.

It's remarkable: a image says more about those who picked it than about the individual pictured. Just unwell persons, people obsessed with malice and animosity –possibly even deviants – could have chosen such a photo", she wrote on Telegram.

Considering the favorable images of Biden that that magazine featured on the front, even with his age-related challenges, the case is self-damaging for Time", she said.

The response to the president's inquiries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – could be related to innovatively depicting a feeling of authority according to an imaging expert, Guardian Australia’s picture editor.

The photograph technically technically is good," she says. "They selected this photo because they wanted the president to look impressive. Staring up at someone gives a sense of their majesty and the president's visage actually looks thoughtful and almost somewhat divine. It's uncommon you see pictures of him in such a peaceful state – 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, producing a glowing aura, she explains. Although the article's title marries well with Trump’s expression in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the individual in question."

Few people appreciate being captured from low angles, and although all of the artistic aspects of the image are quite powerful, the appearance are not flattering."

The publication approached the periodical for comment.