Trump didn’t deny climate change. He said preventing nuclear war was the highest priority, not climate change.
The problem with “following the science” is that the science has been driven by political considerations and assumptions are being made that are not really borne out by recent observations.
Probably the best summary of human influence on global climate is that we are perhaps adding a half degree of warmth to a complex climate system that is mainly driven by natural variability factors, and it also appears from the data that much of the increase takes place in overnight minimum temperatures which somewhat reduces the impact as drought stress would be driven more by increases in daytime maximum temperatures.
As to purported increases in tropical storm and severe weather frequency, these are highly controversial theories even among weather scientists who are open to the AGW hypothesis, and must be treated as unproven. Some recent data actually suggest the opposite trends, i.e., fewer damaging hurricanes and a downturn in severe storms.
Trump is absolutely right to be skeptical and not to commit America to further wasteful spending on costly and ineffective alternative energy projects. Hillary Clinton is dreaming in technicolor if she thinks that solar energy and wind turbines will drive an economic boom. They are more likely to bankrupt the nation and allow the competition (especially China) to speed past America with their reality-based economies.
Magic unicorns are for kids to read about, not for serious politicians to summon as economic saviors.