Biden, Trump and the economy: Who did better on inflation, jobs, gasoline prices?

[GMDino]

This image has been floating about FB today.




It says it was generated by Musk's AI on Twitter "Grok".  And after the 3rd or 4th friend shared it I finally looked and the numbers didn't make sense.  At least on of the totals had to be wrong and since I was working on stats anyway I threw them in to a sheet and well, they were off a bit.



The 2nd thing I took note of is how the percentages are high but the dollar amount isn't.

If this was your shopping list you'd spend an extra $20, I guess a week.

But then I wondered why only 120z of coffee was $6.99?  Maxwell House is $10.48 for a 42.5oz container.  Around 24 cents an ounce.

And that's just one example.

Anyway, I'm certainly not denying inflation exists but examples like this make their way around freely with people blaming whoever is in office at the time and they can't even get their numbers right...or provide a source for the numbers short of AI.