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Recently, Indonesia's leader Prabowo Subianto believed he was a confidential discussion with US President Donald Trump during Middle East peace talks in Egypt.

Instead, a live microphone situation captured Prabowo asking Trump to organize a call with his son Eric, who hold positions at the Trump organization.

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

Below are five other noteworthy blunders:

Transplant Procedures and Immortality

During a defense ceremony in Beijing this September, China's leader Xi Jinping and Russia's head Vladimir Putin were overheard discussing organ replacement as a method for extending lifespan.

"Vital 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," Putin's interpreter was recorded stating.

Xi, who was not visible, responded in Chinese: "Some predict that in the current era people may reach 150 years old."

A conversation recorded from China's leader Xi Jinping and Moscow's head Vladimir Putin

'Sea Rising at Your Door'

Ex-Australia border protection chief Peter Dutton came under fire in 2015 when he made light about the situation of people in the Pacific experiencing rising sea levels.

Dutton was conversing with then-prime minister Tony Abbott, who had recently come back from climate change talks with Pacific Island leaders 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 added: "Schedules become irrelevant when you're about to have water lapping at your door."

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

Peter Dutton recorded making jokes with Tony Abbott about rising sea levels

'Prejudiced Voter'

As Labour prime minister Gordon Brown was campaigning in 2010, he encountered a constituent who challenged him on migration and the economic situation.

Remaining connected to a Sky news microphone when he got into his vehicle, Brown was recorded stating: "That was a disaster – they should not have placed me with that individual. Whose idea was that? Absurd."

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

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

'I Cannot Bear Netanyahu. He Lies.'

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

Sarkozy said: "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 more often than you."

'Total ***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 unaware that a recording device was active when he leaned over to Dick Cheney at a Labor Day rally and said, "There's Adam Clymer, complete jerk from the New York Times."

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

Bush at a Labour rally in 2000