Trump offers to pose with you for a photo, only $20,000 a pop

The asking price for a moment of Donald Trump’s time in Anchorage to pose for a picture is $20,000.

Anyone in Alaska willing to give that much to Trump’s favorite charity is a candidate for the Golden Oosik Award.

Trump is coming to Anchorage to try to purge Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who told the truth about him.

Most others in the Republican Party, including Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Sarah Palin and Kelly Tshibaka, the candidates blessed by Trump, will do anything to avoid offending him.

In 2020, Trump said he didn’t care who represents Alaska and that he would support anyone who is not Lisa Murkowski. “If you have a pulse, I’m with you!” Trump said.

Kelly Tshibaka has a pulse and accepts Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, as do Dunleavy and Palin.

As to the asking price for a photo with Trump, the exact amount may depend on how much the Trump organization and local promoters think they can squeeze out of a given crowd.

In 2018, Trump was selling himself for $25,000 for a photo shoot in Houston, an event that cost $5,000 to get in the door.

In Wyoming in May, the asking rate was $15,000 to oppose Rep. Liz Cheney, another GOP politician who isn’t fooled by Trump. In Georgia in March, the price for a photo with Trump and failed gubernatorial candidate David Perdue was $24,200.

A man in Massachusetts, Bradley Crate, created something on July 1 called the “Alaska First Fund” to handle all the money for Trump, Palin and Tshibaka.

“Red Curve Solutions” in Massachusetts is the mailing address for the “Alaska First Fund.”

Palin’s “Save and Restore Alaskan Honor PAC” is also tied into Crate’s Red Curve Solutions. Palin is the featured candidate of the “MAGASEVEN JFC,” a Virginia entity that can spend and receive money for her.

The “magnificent seven” “MAGASEVEN” candidates are Trump loyalists who endorse his lies about the stolen election.

People who pay $250 to Trump’s event will get “expedited entry,” while those who wait in line for free will wait.

A “VIP reception,” allowing Alaskans to mingle with "surrogates” is $1,000.

The alleged division of the proceeds doesn’t quite add up on the material distributed by the Alaska First people from Massachusetts. The following text is open to interpretation and does not account for any agreements that the parties are probably making to pay for Trump’s services and cover a wide variety of expenses.