As this years historic elections are past us, one soon to be local leader got a phone call from President Elect Donald Trump.

Governor elect Jim Justice was in the middle of coaching basketball when he got a shocking interruption from the soon to be president of the united states of America. “I said Donald, ‘you’re messing up my ball practice,’ but then he said ‘tell those kids I say hello,'” says Justice.

Donald Trump and Justice had a 15 minute phone call discussing ways to improve the mountain state. “He felt touched by the people of West Virginia, especially the miners,” says Justice.

The two went on to talk about how they want to bring back the coal industry and make it bigger than ever. “Donald and I talked a awfully a lot. He said what’s wrong with clean coal technology and I said ‘there’s nothing wrong with it and he said ‘I absolutely feel the same way,'” says Justice.

That’s not where the conversation ended. The two business men discussed how they can work together to help the entire state of West Virginia. “We talked about federal relations being over reaching and we talked about tourism and other things we can do in West Virginia,” says Justice.

With such a great relationship to the White House, Justice says this can only help West Virginia. “It is a pathway of hope and promise to West Virginia like we’ve never had before,” says Justice.

Justice says that he stands by Trump and believes he will do great things for our country.