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

However, a live microphone situation captured Prabowo asking Trump to arrange a meeting with his son Don Jr, both of whom serve as executives at the Trump organization.

This was just one in a string of missteps made by international figures when they assume they're off the record.

Below are five other memorable errors:

Transplant Procedures and Everlasting Life

During a defense ceremony in Beijing in early autumn, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia's head Vladimir Putin were overheard discussing organ replacement as a approach for prolonging life.

"Vital organs can be repeatedly transplanted. The longer you live, the more youthful you get, and you can even reach eternal life," the Russian translator was recorded stating.

Xi, who was off camera, answered in Chinese: "Some predict that in the current era people may live to 150 years old."

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

'Sea Rising at Your Door'

Former Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton faced criticism in 2015 when he made light about the situation of residents in the Pacific facing ocean encroachment.

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

Noting that a meeting about refugees was running on "delayed schedule", Abbott replied: "We had a bit of that up in Port Moresby."

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

These remarks sparked outrage from regional nations and environmentalists, while the political opponents demanded Dutton to apologise.

Peter Dutton overheard joking with Tony Abbott about coastal flooding

'Prejudiced Voter'

As Labour prime minister Gordon Brown was on the trail in 2010, he faced a constituent who questioned him on migration and the economic situation.

Still wired up to a broadcast microphone when he entered the car, Brown was heard saying: "That went terribly – they should never have put me with that woman. Who thought of that? Absurd."

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

The scandal received extensive coverage for weeks and Brown went on to lose the political race.

'I Can't Stand Netanyahu. He's a Liar.'

Ex-American leader Barack Obama was in conversation at the international conference in Cannes in 2011 with then French president Nicolas Sarkozy when their comments about Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu were picked up by a active recording device.

Sarkozy said: "I can't stand Netanyahu. He deceives."

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

'Major League ***hole'

A classic hot-mic moment from then US presidential candidate George W. Bush happened as he made a negative comment about a reporter from The New York Times.

The Republican presidential nominee was didn't realize that a microphone was live when he turned to Dick Cheney at a Labor Day rally and said, "There's Adam Clymer, complete jerk from the New York Times."

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

Bush at a political gathering in 2000