The "Inflation Rate" is an average across all products

Except the official inflation numbers most often cited specifically exclude food, housing, and energy.

AKA the things people can't live without and that they spend the vast majority of their money on.

Which of course makes them utterly useless for anyone except the 10% or fewer who are rich enough that the majority of their spending is on less fundamental things.

That's not even a Trump kakistocracy thing, that's just one of the many ways in which the billionaire-owned media and ditto government have reinforced their "the economy" = "the metrics that matter most to rich people" swindle for decades if not centuries.