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

However, a hot-mic incident revealed Prabowo asking Trump to organize a call with his son Don Jr, who serve as executives at the family business.

It represented only one in a string of gaffes made by world leaders when they assume no one can hear them.

Here are five other memorable blunders:

Transplant Procedures and Immortality

During a defense ceremony in Beijing in early autumn, China's leader Xi Jinping and Russia's head Vladimir Putin were recorded discussing organ transplants as a approach for extending lifespan.

"Vital organs can be repeatedly transplanted. The longer you live, the more youthful you get, and it's possible to even reach eternal life," Putin's interpreter was recorded stating.

Xi, who was off camera, responded in Chinese: "Experts forecast that in the current era people may live to 150 years old."

A conversation heard between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin

'Water Lapping at Your Door'

Ex-Australia border protection chief Peter Dutton came under fire in 2015 when he joked 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 Pacific Island leaders in Port Moresby.

Noting that a migration discussion was running on "Cape York time", Abbott replied: "There was a bit of that up in Port Moresby."

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

The comments provoked anger from regional nations and environmentalists, while the opposition Labor party demanded Dutton to apologise.

Peter Dutton overheard joking with Tony Abbott about coastal flooding

'Bigoted Woman'

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 was a disaster – they should not have placed me with that woman. 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 an extended period and Brown ultimately lost the political race.

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

Ex-American leader 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 said: "I can't stand Netanyahu. He's a liar."

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

'Total ***hole'

A classic 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 political event and said, "That's Adam Clymer, complete jerk from the New York Times."

Cheney responded: "Absolutely, he is, big time."

Bush at a political gathering in 2000