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Recently, Indonesia's leader Prabowo Subianto believed he was a confidential discussion with US President Donald Trump at the Gaza peace summit in Egypt.

However, a hot-mic incident revealed Prabowo requesting Trump to arrange a call with his son Eric, both of whom serve as executives at the Trump organization.

This was just one in a series of missteps committed by world leaders thinking they're off the record.

Below are five other noteworthy blunders:

Transplant Procedures and Immortality

At a military parade in Beijing this September, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia's head Vladimir Putin were overheard talking about organ replacement as a method for prolonging life.

"Vital organs can be repeatedly transplanted. The more you extend your life, the younger you become, and it's possible to even reach eternal life," the Russian translator was heard saying.

Xi, who was not visible, answered in Chinese: "Experts forecast that in the current era people may reach 150 years old."

A conversation recorded from Chinese president Xi Jinping and Moscow's head Vladimir Putin

'Water Lapping at Your Door'

Former Australian border protection chief Peter Dutton came under fire in 2015 when he made light about the situation of people in the Pacific facing rising sea levels.

Dutton was speaking to then-prime minister Tony Abbott, who had recently come back from environmental talks with regional heads in Port Moresby.

Noting that a migration discussion was running on "delayed schedule", Abbott replied: "We had a similar situation up in Port Moresby."

Dutton added: "Schedules become irrelevant when you're about to have the ocean reaching your home."

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

Peter Dutton overheard joking with Tony Abbott about coastal flooding

'Bigoted Woman'

While serving as UK PM Gordon Brown was campaigning in 2010, he faced a voter who questioned him on immigration and the economy.

Still wired up to a Sky news microphone when he got into his vehicle, Brown was recorded stating: "That was a disaster – they should not have placed me with that individual. Who thought of that? Absurd."

When questioned about she had said, he answered: "All topics, she was just a bigoted woman."

The scandal dominated headlines for weeks and Brown ultimately lost the election.

'I Cannot Bear Netanyahu. He Lies.'

Ex-American leader Barack Obama was in discussion at the G20 summit in Cannes in 2011 with then French president Nicolas Sarkozy when their remarks about Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu were captured by a active recording device.

Sarkozy said: "I cannot bear Netanyahu. He's a liar."

According to a account from a translator cited by Reuters, Obama replied: "You're fed up with him but I must work with him frequently than you."

'Total ***hole'

A vintage recording incident from then US presidential candidate George W. Bush happened as he made a negative comment about a journalist from The New York Times.

The GOP candidate was didn't realize that a microphone was live when he leaned over to Dick Cheney at a Labor Day rally and remarked, "There's Adam Clymer, complete jerk from the New York Times."

Cheney responded: "Oh yeah, that's true, definitely."

Bush at a Labour rally in 2000