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This week, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto believed he was a private conversation with American leader Donald Trump at the Gaza peace summit in Egypt.

However, a live microphone situation revealed Prabowo asking Trump to arrange a call with his son Don Jr, who hold positions at the family business.

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

Here are five other memorable blunders:

Organ Transplants and Everlasting Life

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

"Vital organs can be repeatedly replaced. The more you extend your life, the younger you become, and you can even achieve immortality," the Russian translator was heard saying.

Xi, who was off camera, responded in Chinese: "Some predict that in this century people may live to 150 years old."

Dialogue heard between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Moscow's head Vladimir Putin

'Water Lapping at Your Door'

Ex-Australia border protection chief Peter Dutton faced criticism in 2015 when he joked about the plight of people in the Pacific facing ocean encroachment.

Dutton was conversing with then-prime minister Tony Abbott, who had just returned from environmental talks with Pacific Island leaders in Port Moresby.

Noting that a meeting about refugees was running on "delayed schedule", Abbott replied: "We had a similar situation up in Port Moresby."

Dutton commented: "Schedules become irrelevant when you're about to have the ocean reaching your home."

These remarks sparked outrage from regional nations and climate activists, while the political opponents called for Dutton to issue an apology.

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

'Bigoted Woman'

While serving as UK PM Gordon Brown was campaigning in 2010, he encountered a constituent who questioned 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 went terribly – they should never have put me with that individual. Whose idea was that? Ridiculous."

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

The scandal received extensive coverage for weeks and Brown went on to lose the election.

'I Cannot Bear Netanyahu. He Lies.'

Former US president Barack Obama was in conversation at the international conference in Cannes in 2011 with then French president Nicolas Sarkozy when their remarks about Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu were captured by a live microphone.

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

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

'Total ***hole'

A vintage recording incident from former White House hopeful George W. Bush happened as he made a negative comment about a reporter 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 remarked, "There's Adam Clymer, complete jerk from the New York Times."

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

Bush at a Labour rally in 2000