Blaming the cloud because of the mountain…

他总是以领导的口气下命令
Tā zǒng shì yǐ lǐngdǎo de kǒuqì xià mìnglìng

This sentence usefully reduplicates  令, 领

领导lǐngdǎo LEADER

mìnglìng命令 command

lingdai necktie 领带

necktie party: this is what happens when you unilaterally run your foreign policy into the ground.