Gaffes From World Heads of State When They Think No One Is Listening

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

Instead, a hot-mic incident revealed Prabowo requesting Trump to organize a meeting with his son Don Jr, both of whom hold positions at the Trump organization.

It represented only one in a series of missteps committed by international figures when they assume they're off the record.

Below are five other memorable blunders:

Transplant Procedures and Immortality

During a defense ceremony in Beijing in early autumn, China's leader Xi Jinping and Russia's head Vladimir Putin were overheard discussing organ transplants as a method for prolonging life.

"Human organs can be repeatedly replaced. The more you extend your life, the more youthful you get, 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 the current era humans may live to 150 years old."

A conversation 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 joked about the situation of people in the Pacific facing rising sea levels.

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

Noting that a migration discussion was running on "Cape York time", Abbott responded: "We had a similar situation up in Port Moresby."

Dutton commented: "Schedules become irrelevant 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 demanded Dutton to apologise.

Peter Dutton overheard joking with Tony Abbott about coastal flooding

'Bigoted Woman'

While serving as UK PM Gordon Brown was campaigning in 2010, he faced a constituent who challenged him on migration and the economic situation.

Remaining connected to a broadcast microphone when he entered the car, Brown was heard saying: "That was a disaster – they should never have put me with that individual. Who thought of that? Ridiculous."

When questioned about she had said, he replied: "All topics, she was just a bigoted woman."

The scandal received extensive coverage for weeks and Brown ultimately lost the political race.

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

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

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

According to a account from a translator quoted by Reuters, Obama replied: "You've had enough but I have to deal with him more often than you."

'Major League ***hole'

A vintage recording incident from former White House hopeful George W. Bush occurred when he made a negative comment about a journalist from The New York Times.

The Republican presidential nominee was didn't realize that a microphone was live when he turned to Dick Cheney at a Labor Day rally and said, "There's Adam Clymer, complete jerk from the New York Times."

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

Bush at a political gathering in 2000