Gaffes Made by World Leaders When They Think No One Is Listening

This week, Indonesia's President 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 revealed Prabowo asking Trump to arrange a meeting with his son Don Jr, both of whom hold positions at the family business.

It represented only one in a string of missteps committed by world leaders when they assume no one can hear them.

Below are five other noteworthy blunders:

Transplant Procedures and Immortality

At a military parade in Beijing this September, China's leader Xi Jinping and Russia's head Vladimir Putin were overheard talking about organ replacement as a approach for extending lifespan.

"Vital organs can be repeatedly replaced. The longer you live, the more youthful you get, and it's possible to even achieve immortality," Putin's interpreter was heard saying.

Xi, who was off camera, responded in Chinese: "Experts forecast that in the current era humans may live to 150 years old."

A conversation heard between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Russian leader 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 plight of people in the Pacific facing ocean encroachment.

Dutton was speaking to former PM Tony Abbott, who had just returned from climate change talks with Pacific Island leaders 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 added: "Schedules become irrelevant when you're about to have the ocean reaching your home."

These remarks sparked outrage from Pacific Islands and environmentalists, while the political opponents demanded Dutton to issue an apology.

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

'Prejudiced Voter'

While serving as UK PM Gordon Brown was campaigning in 2010, he encountered a voter 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 was a disaster – they should never have put me with that woman. Whose idea was that? Ridiculous."

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

This incident dominated headlines for weeks and Brown went on to lose the election.

'I Can't Stand Netanyahu. He Lies.'

Ex-American leader Barack Obama was in conversation at the international conference in Cannes in 2011 with then French president Nicolas Sarkozy when their remarks about Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu were captured by a active recording device.

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

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

'Total ***hole'

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

The GOP candidate was didn't realize that a microphone was live when he leaned over to Dick Cheney at a political event and said, "There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from the New York Times."

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

Bush at a Labour rally in 2000