diff --git a/lib/ansible/playbook/play_context.py b/lib/ansible/playbook/play_context.py
index 94f0dbe098d..becc18ec091 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/playbook/play_context.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/playbook/play_context.py
@@ -533,8 +533,6 @@ class PlayContext(Base):
             # set flags to use for the privilege escalation method, with various overrides
             flags = self.become_flags or getattr(self, '%s_flags' % self.become_method, '')
 
-            print(exe)
-            print(flags)
             if self.become_method == 'sudo':
                 # If we have a password, we run sudo with a randomly-generated
                 # prompt set using -p. Otherwise we run it with default -n, which makes