🔗 Share this article

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

However, a hot-mic incident captured Prabowo asking Trump to organize a meeting with his son Don Jr, both of whom hold positions at the Trump organization.

It represented only one in a series of gaffes made by international figures when they assume they're off the record.

Below are five other memorable errors:

Organ Transplants and Everlasting Life

At a military parade in Beijing this September, China's leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin were overheard talking about organ replacement as a approach for prolonging life.

"Human organs can be repeatedly replaced. The longer you live, the younger you become, and it's possible to even reach eternal life," the Russian translator was heard saying.

Xi, who was not visible, responded in Chinese: "Experts forecast that in the current era humans may reach 150 years old."

Dialogue heard between China's leader Xi Jinping and Moscow's head Vladimir Putin

'Sea Rising at Your Door'

Former Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton came under fire in 2015 when he made light 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 regional heads in Port Moresby.

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

Dutton commented: "Schedules become irrelevant 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 demanded Dutton to apologise.

Peter Dutton overheard joking with Tony Abbott about rising sea levels

'Bigoted Woman'

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

Still wired up to a broadcast microphone when he got into his vehicle, Brown was recorded stating: "That went terribly – they should not have placed me with that individual. Whose idea was that? Absurd."

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

This incident received extensive coverage for weeks and Brown went on to lose the election.

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

Former US president Barack Obama was in discussion at the international conference in Cannes in 2011 with then French president Nicolas Sarkozy when their remarks about Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu were picked up by a live microphone.

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

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

'Major League ***hole'

A vintage recording incident from former White House hopeful 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 leaned over to Dick Cheney at a Labor Day rally and remarked, "That's Adam Clymer, complete jerk from the New York Times."

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

Bush at a political gathering in 2000