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Recently, Indonesian leader Prabowo Subianto believed he was a confidential discussion with US President Donald Trump during Middle East peace talks in Egypt.

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

This was just one in a string of missteps committed by world leaders when they assume no one can hear them.

Here are several additional memorable errors:

Transplant Procedures and Everlasting Life

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

"Vital organs can be continuously transplanted. The more you extend your life, the more youthful you get, and you can even reach eternal life," the Russian translator was heard saying.

Xi, who was off camera, answered in Chinese: "Experts forecast that in this century humans may reach 150 years old."

Dialogue recorded from Chinese president 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 made light about the situation of residents in the Pacific experiencing ocean encroachment.

Dutton was speaking to former PM Tony Abbott, who had recently come back from climate change talks with Pacific Island leaders in Port Moresby.

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

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

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

Peter Dutton overheard joking with Tony Abbott about coastal flooding

'Prejudiced Voter'

While serving as UK PM Gordon Brown was on the trail in 2010, he encountered a constituent who questioned him on migration 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 not have placed me with that individual. Whose idea was that? Ridiculous."

Asked what she had said, he answered: "Everything, she was just a prejudiced person."

This incident dominated headlines for an extended period and Brown went on to lose the election.

'I Cannot Bear Netanyahu. He's a Liar.'

Ex-American leader Barack Obama was in conversation at the G20 summit in Cannes in 2011 with then French president Nicolas Sarkozy when their comments about Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu were captured by a live microphone.

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

According to a version from a French interpreter quoted by Reuters, Obama responded: "You're fed up with him but I have to deal with him frequently than you."

'Total ***hole'

A classic 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 leaned over to Dick Cheney at a Labor Day rally and remarked, "That's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from the New York Times."

Cheney responded: "Oh yeah, he is, big time."

Bush at a political gathering in 2000