diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 680ec5d..4e4dcaa 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -1,10 +1,25 @@
 /*!
  * word-wrap <https://github.com/jonschlinkert/word-wrap>
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2014-2017, Jon Schlinkert.
+ * Copyright (c) 2014-2023, Jon Schlinkert.
  * Released under the MIT License.
  */
 
+function trimEnd(str) {
+  let lastCharPos = str.length - 1;
+  let lastChar = str[lastCharPos];
+  while(lastChar === ' ' || lastChar === '\t') {
+    lastChar = str[--lastCharPos];
+  }
+  return str.substring(0, lastCharPos + 1);
+}
+
+function trimTabAndSpaces(str) {
+  const lines = str.split('\n');
+  const trimmedLines = lines.map((line) => trimEnd(line));
+  return trimmedLines.join('\n');
+}
+
 module.exports = function(str, options) {
   options = options || {};
   if (str == null) {
@@ -36,7 +51,7 @@ module.exports = function(str, options) {
   }).join(newline);
 
   if (options.trim === true) {
-    result = result.replace(/[ \t]*$/gm, '');
+    result = trimTabAndSpaces(result);
   }
   return result;
 };
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 6f8f633..d3e4401 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "word-wrap",
   "description": "Wrap words to a specified length.",
-  "version": "1.2.3",
+  "version": "1.2.4",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/jonschlinkert/word-wrap",
   "author": "Jon Schlinkert (https://github.com/jonschlinkert)",
   "contributors": [
diff --git a/test.js b/test.js
index a523bb3..e60fee8 100644
--- a/test.js
+++ b/test.js
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ describe('wrap', function () {
     assert.equal(wrap(str, {trim: true}), 'A project without documentation is like a project\nthat doesn\'t exist. Verb solves this by making it\ndead simple to generate project documentation,\nusing simple markdown templates, with zero\nconfiguration required.');
   });
 
+  it('should trim trailing whitespace (even for empty lines):', function () {
+    assert.equal(wrap("a \n\nb \n \nc\t", {trim: true}), 'a\n\nb\n\nc');
+  });
+
   it('should handle strings with just newlines', function () {
     assert.equal(wrap('\r\n', {indent: '\r\n', width: 18}), '\r\n');
   });