President Trump has upset a lot of norms in his few weeks in office in this second term. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the calling out of the childish behavior by Democrats in his speech Tuesday - there doesn't seem to be an applecart that the president isn't willing to tip over.

Now, though, there are reports that he's thinking of reworking the American commitment to NATO. Color me skeptical; here's why.

President Donald Trump is considering a major change to the U.S.’ participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, according to three current and former senior U.S. officials and one congressional official.

Trump has discussed with aides the possibility of calibrating America’s NATO engagement in a way that favors members of the alliance that spend a set percentage of their gross domestic product on defense, the officials said.

Not that I don't think President Trump may be thinking of altering our agreement with NATO - and not that I don't think that we should be taking a good hard look at NATO's continued relevance - but this report has me scratching my head. First of all, the White House has been, as of this writing, silent on this specific subject. Also, anonymous sources always set my BS-O-Meter off, especially when it's the legacy media reporting. What "current and former senior U.S. officials?" How would a former official know about this? And which "congressional official?" A staffer? An elected representative or senator? Who is giving NBC this information?

The only named government figure in this piece is Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) and he isn't sharing a lot.

Sen. Chris Coons, of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Defense and a senior senator on the Foreign Relations panel, said Trump’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, “gave very reassuring answers” on the administration’s commitment to NATO and Article 5.

Anonymous sources are, of course, a long-standing tradition in Washington. And they are worth every penny you pay for them. Now, the NATO world is a little worked up right now, and we should note that not all NATO members are living up to their treaty obligations.

Trump has repeatedly criticized NATO countries for not meeting the current NATO member goal of spending 2% of their GDP on defense. He has argued that the disparity is unfair and puts an added burden on the U.S.

NATO countries agreed more than a decade ago to set the spending goal for each of them at 2% of GDP. But Trump has pushed to increase that percentage. Most recently he said NATO members should spend 5% of their GDP on defense, though the U.S. does not currently do that.

That may be subject to change if the president's promises of new shipbuilding and other defense-related issues get through Congress.

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It's difficult to see how favoring any NATO nation over another jibes with our treaty obligations. Article 5, in particular, includes the famous "an attack on one is an attack on all" rule. Would the president hesitate to fulfill our treaty obligations to protect, say, France, should they not spend the required two percent of GDP on defense? Granted, most of the NATO nations of Eastern Europe, who face Russia across that narrow, deadly space, are meeting that obligation and then some. Poland, which has the historical misfortune of being the crossroads of Eastern Europe, spends almost twice the two percent NATO requires. In fact, they come in third in defense spending as a percentage of GDP, after Russia and (of course) Ukraine.

The American involvement with NATO could use a re-evaluation. But on this specific report that President Trump may be considering this kind of calibration - well, I'll buy that when I see an announcement from a more official and less anonymous source.

President Trump is re-writing all norms and shaking up The Swamp like we've never seen. 

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