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

However, a live microphone situation revealed Prabowo requesting Trump to arrange a call with his son Don Jr, who hold positions at the family business.

It represented only one in a string of missteps committed by international figures when they assume they're off the record.

Below are five other noteworthy blunders:

Transplant Procedures and Everlasting Life

At a military parade in Beijing in early autumn, China's leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin were recorded discussing organ replacement as a approach for extending lifespan.

"Human organs can be repeatedly transplanted. The longer you live, the younger you become, and you can even reach eternal life," Putin's interpreter was heard saying.

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

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

'Water Lapping at Your Door'

Former Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton came under fire 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 environmental talks with Pacific Island leaders in Port Moresby.

Observing how a migration discussion was running on "delayed schedule", Abbott replied: "There was a similar situation up in Port Moresby."

Dutton added: "Time doesn't mean anything when you're about to have water lapping at your door."

These remarks sparked outrage 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

'Prejudiced Voter'

As Labour prime minister Gordon Brown was campaigning in 2010, he encountered a constituent who questioned him on migration and the economy.

Remaining connected to a Sky news microphone when he got into his vehicle, Brown was heard saying: "That was a disaster – they should never have put me with that woman. Who thought of that? Absurd."

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

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

'I Cannot Bear Netanyahu. He Lies.'

Former US president 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 picked up by a live microphone.

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

Per a account from a translator cited by Reuters, Obama responded: "You've had enough but I must work with him more often than you."

'Major League ***hole'

A vintage hot-mic moment from former White House hopeful George W. Bush occurred when he made a disparaging remark about a reporter 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 political event and remarked, "There's Adam Clymer, complete jerk from the New York Times."

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

Bush at a political gathering in 2000