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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 revealed Prabowo asking Trump to organize a call with his son Don Jr, who hold positions at the Trump organization.

This was just one in a series of missteps committed by world leaders thinking no one can hear them.

Here are five other memorable errors:

Transplant Procedures and Immortality

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

"Human organs can be repeatedly replaced. The longer you live, the more youthful you get, and you can even achieve immortality," the Russian translator was heard saying.

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

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

'Water Lapping at Your Door'

Former Australian border protection chief Peter Dutton faced criticism in 2015 when he made light about the situation of residents in the Pacific facing ocean encroachment.

Dutton was conversing with then-prime minister Tony Abbott, who had just returned from climate change talks with regional heads in Port Moresby.

Observing how a migration discussion was running on "delayed schedule", Abbott replied: "We had 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 environmentalists, while the opposition Labor party demanded Dutton to issue an apology.

Peter Dutton overheard joking with Tony Abbott about rising sea levels

'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 Sky news microphone when he entered the car, Brown was heard saying: "That was a disaster – they should not have placed me with that woman. Whose idea was that? Ridiculous."

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

This incident dominated headlines for weeks and Brown ultimately lost the election.

'I Cannot Bear Netanyahu. He Lies.'

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

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

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

'Major League ***hole'

A classic hot-mic moment from former White House hopeful George W. Bush occurred when he made a disparaging remark about a reporter from The New York Times.

The GOP candidate was didn't realize that a microphone was live when he leaned over to Dick Cheney at a Labor Day rally and said, "There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from the New York Times."

Cheney responded: "Absolutely, that's true, big time."

Bush at a political gathering in 2000