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This week, Indonesia's leader Prabowo Subianto believed he was a confidential discussion with American leader Donald Trump during Middle East peace talks in Egypt.

However, a live microphone situation revealed Prabowo asking Trump to arrange a meeting with his son Don Jr, who serve as executives at the family business.

It represented only one in a series of gaffes made by international figures when they assume they're off the record.

Below are five other memorable errors:

Transplant Procedures and Immortality

During a defense ceremony in Beijing in early autumn, China's leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin were recorded discussing organ replacement as a method for prolonging life.

"Vital organs can be repeatedly replaced. The more you extend your life, the more youthful you get, and it's possible to even reach eternal life," Putin's interpreter was heard saying.

Xi, who was not visible, responded in Chinese: "Experts forecast that in this century people may live to 150 years old."

Dialogue recorded from China's leader Xi Jinping and Moscow's head Vladimir Putin

'Water Lapping at Your Door'

Former Australian border protection chief Peter Dutton faced criticism in 2015 when he joked about the situation of people in the Pacific experiencing ocean encroachment.

Dutton was conversing with then-prime minister Tony Abbott, who had recently come back from climate change talks with regional heads in Port Moresby.

Noting that a meeting about refugees was running on "delayed schedule", Abbott replied: "There was a similar situation up in Port Moresby."

Dutton commented: "Time doesn't mean anything when you're about to have the ocean reaching your home."

These remarks provoked anger from regional nations and environmentalists, while the opposition Labor party called for Dutton to issue an apology.

Peter Dutton recorded making jokes with Tony Abbott about rising sea levels

'Bigoted Woman'

While serving as UK PM Gordon Brown was campaigning in 2010, he encountered a constituent who questioned him on migration and the economy.

Still wired up to a broadcast microphone when he entered the car, Brown was heard saying: "That went terribly – they should not have placed me with that individual. Whose idea was that? Absurd."

When questioned about she had said, he replied: "Everything, she was just a bigoted woman."

This incident dominated headlines for an extended period and Brown ultimately lost the election.

'I Cannot Bear Netanyahu. He's a Liar.'

Former US president Barack Obama was in discussion at the international conference in Cannes in 2011 with France's leader Nicolas Sarkozy when their comments about Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu were picked up by a active recording device.

Sarkozy stated: "I can't stand Netanyahu. He's a liar."

Per a account from a French interpreter cited by Reuters, Obama responded: "You're fed up with him but I have to deal with him more often than you."

'Total ***hole'

A classic recording incident from former White House hopeful George W. Bush occurred when he made a negative comment about a reporter from The New York Times.

The GOP candidate was didn't realize that a recording device was active when he turned to Dick Cheney at a political event and said, "That's Adam Clymer, complete jerk from the New York Times."

Cheney responded: "Absolutely, he is, definitely."

Bush at a political gathering in 2000