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Of a lot of mental illnesses. Dementia, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and other mental problems have this word salad as a symptom. Even severe grief can bring it on.

Circumlocution is what's it's called but in severe communication disruption due to dementia it also includes Visual agnosia, Semantic paraphasia, Superordinate responses, Pronoun substitution, which pedo Trump also displays.

"In early dementia, the word retrieval problems are very severe and cause a lot of this circumlocution, or people start to talk around things to a point where the the conversation gets really disrupted and it's kind of hard to follow the thread of what that person is saying."

https://www.adrc.wisc.edu/dementia-matters/how-language-and-conversation-can-help-detect-dementia#:~:text=In%20early%20dementia%2C%20the%20word,what%20that%20person%20is%20saying.