'The all-time low': Trump criticizes Time's 'extremely poor' cover picture.

It is a glowing article in a periodical that Trump has consistently praised – but for one catch. The front-page image, he stated, ""might be the most terrible in history".

Time magazine's praise to Trump's role in brokering a ceasefire in Gaza, featured on its November 10 cover, was paired with a photo of Trump taken from below while the sun behind his head.

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

"The publication wrote a relatively good story about me, but the photo may be the most awful ever", the president posted on Truth Social.

“They removed my hair, and then had an object hovering on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an remarkably little one. Truly strange! I always disliked taking pictures from low perspectives, but this is a super bad picture, and should be criticized. Why did they do this, and why?”

Trump has made no secret of his desire to be pictured on Time’s cover and achieved this on four occasions in the previous year. The obsession has extended to the president's resorts – in 2017, the magazine asked him to remove fake issues shown in a few of his establishments.

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

The shot's viewpoint was unflattering to Trump’s chin and neck – an opening that California governor Gavin Newsom seized, with the governor's office posting a modified photo with the offending area pixelated.

{The Israeli captives detained in Gaza have been released under the first phase of Trump's ceasefire agreement, together with a release of Palestinian detainees. The deal may become a signature achievement of his next term, and it may represent a key shift for that part of the world.

Meanwhile, a support for Trump's image has come from unusual quarters: the director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs came forward to criticise the "self-incriminating" photo selection.

It's amazing: a image says more about those who selected it than about the individual pictured. Only sick people, people obsessed with malice and resentment –maybe even degenerates – could have selected such an image", she posted on the messaging platform.

"And given the complimentary photos of Biden that the same publication used on the cover, even with his age-related challenges, the story is simply self-incriminating for the publication", she said.

The answer to his queries – what were Time’s editors doing, and why? – could be related to creatively capturing a sense of power says a picture editor, an Australian publication's photo editor.

"The actual photo itself is professionally taken," she explains. "They picked this image because they wanted trump to look heroic. Looking up at a person evokes a feeling of their importance and his expression actually looks thoughtful and almost a bit ethereal. It's uncommon you see images of the president in such a calm instance – the picture feels tender."

His hair appears to “disappear” because the light from behind has bleached that section of the image, producing a glowing aura, she says. And, while the article's title marries well with the president's look in the image, "it's impossible to satisfy the subject matter."

Nobody enjoys being photographed from below, and while all of the artistic aspects of the image are very strong, the visual appeal are not flattering."

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