Editing President (card game) (section)

===Dealing===
The person who is president (or the scum in some versions) shuffles and deals the cards. All the cards are dealt as evenly as possible in [[Glossary of card game terms#rotation|clockwise rotation]].

After cards are dealt, the scum must hand over the best card in their hand to the president, and the president passes back any card they do not want.<ref name="pagat"/>

Variations with multiple top and two bottom positions often require the scum to hand additional cards to the president, up to the number of top positions in the game. (For example, a game with a secretary and clerk might call for the scum to hand over three cards to the president, the high-scum to hand over two cards to the vice-president and the clerk to hand over one card to the secretary.) In any event, the players who receive cards from the bottom positions always hand back an equal number of "junk" cards that they do not want. They are not obliged to pass back their lowest cards.