Many people around the world consider Donald Trump's appointment as a doomsday scenario, and coincidentally his name winds up in one of Nostradamus' ominous predictions. The media is already rife with rumors about 2017 being the appointed timeline for the emergence of the 3rd Anti-Christ - none other than Trump himself.

Doomsday prophecies were rarely taken seriously and it may seem like this 2017 Nostradamus vision is no different than the previous ones. Prior to 2012, people around the globe were nearly convinced that the world is about to end cataclysmically as predicted by the Mayan calendar.

So is the end of the world moved 5 years later? Not so fast! According to an article published by Yibada, Nostradamus discusses the role of the 3rd Anti-Christ in the gradual fulfillment of World War III.

Hence, Trump governing the White House is just the beginning of the cataclysmic events that will put humanity's survival to its hardest test. A 20th Century Balkan mystic named Baba Vanga picks up from Nostradamus' predictions and describes the invasion of Muslims in Europe, the rise of China, and World War III in an even more graphic detail.

Nostradamus Quatrain: Century 3 - Quatrain 50

"The republic of the great city will not want to consent to the great severity: King summoned by trumpet to go out, the ladder at the wall, the city will repent," Nostradamus wrote in his memoirs. Coincidentally, an article from Jobs & Hire describing the turmoil caused by Trump's appointment somehow sheds light to the initial sentence of the seer's aforementioned verse.

While many may subscribe to Nostradamus' 2017 prediction, an equal number of critics also express doubts. In fact, a story featured in Rise News consider 2017 as an unlikely timetable for the alarming prophecy given how the current global economic atmosphere makes armed conflict practically unfeasible.