But two groups of ABC affiliates that denounced Kimmel last week said they would not carry his return. ABC suspended Kimmel indefinitely after comments he made in a monologue last week. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said before ABC announced the suspension. Trump had hailed Kimmel’s suspension, even inaccurately saying the show had been canceled. The ABC statement said the suspension happened because some of Kimmel’s comments were “ill-timed and thus insensitive,” but it did not call them misleading.