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This week, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto thought he was having a private conversation 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 Don Jr, both of whom hold positions at the family business.

This was just one in a string of gaffes made by world leaders thinking they're off the record.

Below are several additional noteworthy errors:

Transplant Procedures and Immortality

At a military parade in Beijing in early autumn, China's leader Xi Jinping and Russia's head Vladimir Putin were recorded talking about organ transplants as a approach for prolonging life.

"Vital organs can be continuously replaced. The longer you live, the younger you become, and you can even achieve immortality," the Russian translator was recorded stating.

Xi, who was off camera, responded in Chinese: "Some predict that in the current era humans may reach 150 years old."

A conversation recorded from Chinese president Xi Jinping and Moscow's head Vladimir Putin

'Water Lapping at Your Door'

Former Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton came under fire in 2015 when he joked about the situation 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.

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

Dutton commented: "Schedules become irrelevant when you're about to have water lapping at your door."

These remarks provoked anger from regional nations and environmentalists, while the opposition Labor party demanded Dutton to issue an apology.

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 encountered a constituent who challenged 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 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: "Everything, she was just a bigoted woman."

This incident dominated headlines for weeks and Brown went on to lose the election.

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

Former US president Barack Obama was in discussion at the G20 summit in Cannes in 2011 with France's leader Nicolas Sarkozy when their comments about Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu were picked up by a active recording device.

Sarkozy stated: "I can't stand 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 more often than you."

'Major League ***hole'

A vintage 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 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