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

However, a hot-mic incident captured Prabowo asking Trump to arrange a meeting with his son Eric, who hold positions at the family business.

It represented only one in a series of missteps made by world leaders thinking no one can hear them.

Here are five other memorable blunders:

Transplant Procedures and Everlasting Life

At a military parade in Beijing this September, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia's head Vladimir Putin were recorded discussing organ replacement as a method for extending lifespan.

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

Xi, who was not visible, responded in Chinese: "Experts forecast that in this century people may live to 150 years old."

Dialogue heard between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin

'Sea Rising at Your Door'

Former Australian border protection chief Peter Dutton came under fire in 2015 when he joked about the situation of residents in the Pacific facing ocean encroachment.

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 responded: "There was a similar situation up in Port Moresby."

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

The comments provoked anger from regional nations and environmentalists, while the opposition Labor party called for Dutton to issue an apology.

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

'Bigoted Woman'

As Labour prime minister Gordon Brown was on the trail in 2010, he faced a constituent who questioned him on immigration and the economy.

Remaining connected to a broadcast microphone when he got into his vehicle, Brown was heard saying: "That went terribly – they should not have placed me with that woman. Whose idea was that? Ridiculous."

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

The scandal received extensive coverage for an extended period and Brown ultimately lost 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 then French president Nicolas Sarkozy when their comments about Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu were captured by a live microphone.

Sarkozy stated: "I cannot bear Netanyahu. He's a liar."

Per a version from a translator quoted by Reuters, Obama responded: "You're fed up with him but I have to deal with him more often than you."

'Total ***hole'

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

The GOP candidate was unaware that a microphone was live when he leaned over to Dick Cheney at a political event and said, "That's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from the New York Times."

Cheney responded: "Absolutely, he is, definitely."

Bush at a political gathering in 2000