Peter Thiel is the most influential man in the Trump White House that almost nobody in America is familiar with. Most Americans have never heard of Thiel and wouldn't be able to tell you one fact about him. They're sidetracked and distracted by Thiel's good friend and fellow technocrat, Elon Musk. But don't be fooled.

President Trump's push to recalibrate the U.S.-China trade relationship has the full endorsement of the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel.

Thiel, one of the infamous "PayPal mafia," and a major financier of the Trump-Vance ticket, recently told American Optimist host Joe Lonsdale that "something like the sort of reset that they're talking about now seems where we're going, where you need a very drastic reset with China."