Some with their hands apart seem to be acting in dismay and vainly grasping to get the paper back. That’s a different action from clapping.
But there are some on FR and elsewhere that never pass up a chance to smear Lincoln because they see what Lincoln did during the Civil War as the first instances of extraconstitutional presidential power, thereby making it easier for later presidents to also do so.
Then we better git him offa Mt. Rushmore, pronto!!! (grin)
Actually, T.R. too!!!