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Recently, Indonesian President 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 captured Prabowo requesting 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 international figures thinking no one can hear them.

Below are several additional noteworthy errors:

Transplant Procedures and Everlasting Life

At a military parade in Beijing this September, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin were overheard discussing organ replacement as a approach for prolonging life.

"Vital organs can be repeatedly transplanted. The more you extend your life, the younger you become, and it's possible to even achieve immortality," the Russian translator was heard saying.

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

Dialogue heard between China's leader 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 made light about the plight of residents in the Pacific facing rising sea levels.

Dutton was conversing with former PM Tony Abbott, who had recently come back from environmental talks with regional heads in Port Moresby.

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

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

These remarks sparked outrage from regional nations and environmentalists, while the opposition Labor party called for Dutton to apologise.

Peter Dutton overheard joking with Tony Abbott about rising sea levels

'Prejudiced Voter'

While serving as UK PM Gordon Brown was campaigning in 2010, he encountered a voter who challenged him on immigration 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 never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? Absurd."

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

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

'I Cannot Bear Netanyahu. He Lies.'

Ex-American leader Barack Obama was in conversation at the international conference in Cannes in 2011 with France's leader Nicolas Sarkozy when their remarks about Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu were picked up by a active recording device.

Sarkozy stated: "I cannot bear Netanyahu. He deceives."

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

'Total ***hole'

A classic hot-mic moment from former White House hopeful George W. Bush happened as he made a disparaging remark 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 Labor Day rally and remarked, "There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from the New York Times."

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

Bush at a Labour rally in 2000