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This week, Indonesia's leader Prabowo Subianto thought he was having 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 Eric, both of whom serve as executives at the Trump organization.

It represented only one in a series of missteps made by world leaders thinking they're off the record.

Here are several additional memorable blunders:

Organ Transplants and Everlasting Life

At a military parade in Beijing this September, China's leader Xi Jinping and Russia's head Vladimir Putin were overheard talking about organ replacement as a method for extending lifespan.

"Human organs can be continuously replaced. The more you extend your life, the more youthful you get, and it's possible to even reach eternal life," the Russian translator was recorded stating.

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

A conversation heard between China's leader Xi Jinping and Moscow's head 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 conversing with 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: "We had a similar situation up in Port Moresby."

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

The comments sparked outrage from regional nations and climate activists, while the political opponents called for Dutton to issue an apology.

Peter Dutton recorded making jokes with Tony Abbott about coastal flooding

'Prejudiced Voter'

As Labour prime minister Gordon Brown was on the trail in 2010, he encountered a voter who challenged him on immigration and the economic situation.

Remaining connected to a broadcast microphone when he entered the car, Brown was recorded stating: "That was a disaster – they should never have put me with that individual. Whose idea was that? Absurd."

Asked what she had said, he answered: "Everything, she was just a bigoted woman."

The scandal dominated headlines for weeks and Brown went on to lose the political race.

'I Can't Stand Netanyahu. He Lies.'

Ex-American leader Barack Obama was in discussion at the G20 summit 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 stated: "I can't stand Netanyahu. He deceives."

According to a account 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 then US presidential candidate George W. Bush occurred when 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 turned to Dick Cheney at a political event and remarked, "There's Adam Clymer, complete jerk from the New York Times."

Cheney answered: "Absolutely, that's true, definitely."

Bush at a political gathering in 2000