Blunders From Global Leaders 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.
Instead, a live microphone situation revealed Prabowo asking Trump to organize a call with his son Don Jr, who hold positions at the Trump organization.
This was just one in a series of missteps committed by world leaders thinking no one can hear them.
Below are several additional memorable errors:
Transplant Procedures and Everlasting Life
During a defense ceremony in Beijing in early autumn, China's leader Xi Jinping and Russia's head Vladimir Putin were overheard discussing organ replacement as a method for extending lifespan.
"Human organs can be continuously transplanted. The longer you live, the more youthful you get, and it's possible to even reach eternal life," the Russian translator was heard saying.
Xi, who was off camera, responded in Chinese: "Experts forecast that in the current era people may reach 150 years old."
Dialogue heard between China's leader Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin
'Sea Rising at Your Door'
Former Australian immigration minister Peter Dutton came under fire in 2015 when he joked about the plight of people in the Pacific experiencing ocean encroachment.
Dutton was speaking to former PM Tony Abbott, who had just returned from environmental talks with regional heads in Port Moresby.
Observing how a meeting about refugees was running on "Cape York time", Abbott replied: "We had a bit of that up in Port Moresby."
Dutton added: "Time doesn't mean anything when you're about to have water lapping at your door."
These remarks provoked anger from regional nations and climate activists, while the opposition Labor party demanded Dutton to apologise.
Peter Dutton recorded making jokes with Tony Abbott about coastal flooding
'Prejudiced Voter'
As Labour prime minister Gordon Brown was campaigning in 2010, he encountered a constituent who challenged him on immigration and the economic situation.
Remaining connected to a Sky news microphone when he entered the car, 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 answered: "Everything, she was just a bigoted woman."
The scandal dominated headlines for weeks and Brown ultimately lost the political race.
'I Cannot Bear 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 captured by a active recording device.
Sarkozy stated: "I can't stand Netanyahu. He deceives."
Per a version from a French interpreter quoted by Reuters, Obama replied: "You've had enough but I have to deal with him frequently than you."
'Total ***hole'
A vintage recording incident from former White House hopeful George W. Bush occurred when he made a disparaging remark about a reporter from The New York Times.
The Republican presidential nominee was unaware 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 answered: "Absolutely, he is, definitely."
Bush at a Labour rally in 2000
