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Recently, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto believed he was a private conversation with US President Donald Trump at the Gaza peace summit in Egypt.

Instead, a live microphone situation captured Prabowo requesting Trump to organize a meeting with his son Eric, both of whom hold positions at the family business.

This was just one in a series of gaffes made by international figures thinking no one can hear them.

Here are five other memorable errors:

Transplant Procedures and Everlasting Life

At a military parade in Beijing in early autumn, China's leader Xi Jinping and Russia's head Vladimir Putin were overheard discussing organ transplants as a approach for prolonging life.

"Human organs can be repeatedly replaced. The more you extend your life, the younger you become, and you can even reach eternal life," the Russian translator was recorded stating.

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

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

'Water Lapping at Your Door'

Ex-Australia immigration minister Peter Dutton came under fire in 2015 when he joked about the plight of residents in the Pacific experiencing ocean encroachment.

Dutton was conversing with former PM Tony Abbott, who had recently come back from environmental talks with Pacific Island leaders in Port Moresby.

Observing how a migration discussion was running on "Cape York time", Abbott responded: "We had a bit of that up in Port Moresby."

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

These remarks provoked anger from Pacific Islands and climate activists, while the political opponents called for Dutton to issue an apology.

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

'Bigoted Woman'

As Labour prime minister Gordon Brown was campaigning in 2010, he encountered a voter who questioned him on immigration and the economic situation.

Remaining connected to a Sky news microphone when he entered the car, Brown was recorded stating: "That went terribly – they should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? Absurd."

Asked what she had said, he replied: "All topics, she was just a bigoted woman."

This incident dominated headlines for weeks and Brown went on to lose the election.

'I Can't Stand 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 remarks about Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu were captured by a active recording device.

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

Per a account from a French interpreter cited by Reuters, Obama replied: "You've had enough but I have to deal with him more often than you."

'Major League ***hole'

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

The Republican presidential nominee was unaware that a microphone was live when he turned to Dick Cheney at a Labor Day rally and remarked, "That's Adam Clymer, complete jerk from the New York Times."

Cheney responded: "Absolutely, that's true, big time."

Bush at a Labour rally in 2000