Hm. I’ve reviewed a few other press briefings, and it seems that nobody ever “claps” after one of them. So maybe it’s not that the president didn’t receive an ovation, it’s that one person slow-clapped.
THat was the one thing I was wondering about - I didn’t recall a lot of clapping after press conferences wither - but it could just be that I’m too ticked off by that point to commit anything to memory