President Donald Trump published a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday, accusing Canada of having "financially retaliated" against the U.S.

Trump has repeatedly pressed Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell to lower interest rates in an attack on the central bank’s independence. Meanwhile, Congress has passed the president’s flagship budget bill, which is forecast by independent analysts to add trillions of dollars in public debt in coming years.

What a wild period in American history that was: the CNN debate, Trump gets shot, Biden drops out, Kamala swaps in... all in the span of, like, a month. It's worth taking a beat to remember what happened on that fairground in western Pennsylvania,