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Not strictly true. Even a brick has aerodynamic properties and you can improve these properties in small and meaningful ways.
Back to tyres... you can virtually disregard the rim for most rim (e.g. non-aero) rim sections. The main aerodynamic effect is then that of a bluff body, being the tyre. Make the tyre wider, you increase the drag, simple as that.