Gaffes From Global Heads of State When They Think They're in Private

Recently, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto believed he was a private conversation with American leader Donald Trump during Middle East peace talks in Egypt.

However, a live microphone situation captured Prabowo requesting Trump to arrange a meeting with his son Don Jr, both of whom hold positions at the Trump organization.

It represented only one in a string of gaffes made by world leaders when they assume they're off the record.

Here are several additional noteworthy blunders:

Transplant Procedures and Everlasting Life

At a military parade in Beijing this September, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin were overheard discussing organ transplants as a approach for extending lifespan.

"Human organs can be repeatedly 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 heard saying.

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

Dialogue 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 faced criticism in 2015 when he made light about the situation of residents in the Pacific experiencing 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.

Observing how a migration discussion was running on "Cape York time", Abbott replied: "There was a bit of that up in Port Moresby."

Dutton commented: "Schedules become irrelevant when you're about to have water lapping at your door."

These remarks provoked anger from regional nations and environmentalists, while the political opponents demanded Dutton to issue an apology.

Peter Dutton overheard joking 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 challenged him on migration and the economy.

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

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

This incident received extensive coverage for weeks and Brown ultimately lost the political race.

'I Cannot Bear Netanyahu. He Lies.'

Former US president Barack Obama was in discussion at the G20 summit in Cannes in 2011 with then French president Nicolas Sarkozy when their remarks about Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu were picked up by a live microphone.

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

According to a version from a French interpreter cited by Reuters, Obama replied: "You're fed up with him but I must work with him frequently than you."

'Total ***hole'

A classic recording incident from then US presidential candidate George W. Bush happened as he made a negative comment about a reporter from The New York Times.

The Republican presidential nominee was unaware that a recording device was active when he turned to Dick Cheney at a Labor Day rally and remarked, "That's Adam Clymer, complete jerk from the New York Times."

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

Bush at a political gathering in 2000