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It is a positive feature in a magazine that the president has frequently admired – but for one catch. The magazine's cover photo, the president decreed, ""could be the worst ever".

Time's praise to Trump's role in brokering a Gaza ceasefire, leading its 10 November issue, was accompanied by a photo of Trump shot from a low angle and with the sun positioned behind him.

The result, Trump claims, is "super bad".

"Time wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the most awful ever", Trump wrote on his social media platform.

“My hair was erased, and then there was something floating my head that appeared as a hovering crown, but quite miniature. Really weird! I have consistently disliked being shot from underneath, but this is a extremely poor image, and it should be denounced. What are they doing, and why?”

Donald Trump has shown no secret of his desire to feature on the cover of Time and accomplished it on four occasions in the previous year. The preoccupation has extended to the president's resorts – previously, the editors demanded to remove mocked up covers exhibited in a few of his establishments.

The most recent cover image was captured by Graeme Sloane for Bloomberg at the White House on the fifth of October.

The perspective highlighted negatively his chin and neck area – an opening that the governor of California Newsom did not miss, with his press office sharing an altered image with the criticized section blurred.

{The Israeli captives held in Gaza have been freed under the opening part of the president's diplomatic initiative, alongside a Palestinian prisoner release. This agreement could be a signature achievement of his next term, and it may represent a strategic turning point for the Middle East.

At the same time, a support for Trump's image has emerged from unusual quarters: the communications chief at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs came forward to denounce the "damaging" image choice.

"It’s astonishing: a image reveals far more about those who picked it than about the individual pictured. Only sick people, people obsessed with malice and animosity –perhaps even perverts – could have chosen such a photo", she wrote on her social channel.

Considering the favorable images of President Biden that the same publication displayed on the cover, despite his physical infirmity, the story is simply self-incriminating for Time", she said.

The explanation for Trump’s questions – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – may be something to do with creatively capturing a feeling of authority says Carly Earl, a media professional.

"The actual photo itself is well-executed," she explains. "They chose this shot because they wanted trump to look commanding. Staring up at someone gives a sense of their grandeur and the president's visage actually looks contemplative and almost somewhat divine. It’s not often you see images of the president in such a calm instance – the photo appears gentle."

The president's hair looks erased because the rear illumination has washed out that area of the image, creating a halo effect, she adds. Even though the story’s headline pairs nicely with the president's look in the image, "one cannot constantly gratify the individual in question."

"No one likes being captured from low angles, and although all of the artistic aspects of the image are quite powerful, the aesthetics are unflattering."

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