diff --git a/Sources/WordPressData/Swift/Post.swift b/Sources/WordPressData/Swift/Post.swift
index 46a0621b1e5b..add91a2e68ae 100644
--- a/Sources/WordPressData/Swift/Post.swift
+++ b/Sources/WordPressData/Swift/Post.swift
@@ -219,14 +219,14 @@ public class Post: AbstractPost {
             if let preview = PostPreviewCache.shared.excerpt[excerpt] {
                 return preview
             }
-            let preview = excerpt.makePlainText().withCollapsedNewlines()
+            let preview = excerpt.makePlainText().withCollapsedNewlines().trimmedForPreview()
             PostPreviewCache.shared.excerpt[excerpt] = preview
             return preview
         } else if let content {
             if let preview = PostPreviewCache.shared.content[content] {
                 return preview
             }
-            let preview = GutenbergExcerptGenerator.firstParagraph(from: content, maxLength: 200).withCollapsedNewlines()
+            let preview = GutenbergExcerptGenerator.firstParagraph(from: content, maxLength: 200).withCollapsedNewlines().trimmedForPreview()
             PostPreviewCache.shared.content[content] = preview
             return preview
         } else {
@@ -253,6 +253,11 @@ private extension String {
     func withCollapsedNewlines() -> String {
         replacingOccurrences(of: "[\n]{2,}", with: "\n", options: .regularExpression)
     }
+
+    // Remove leading/trailing line breaks to avoid rendering blank trailing lines in preview labels.
+    func trimmedForPreview() -> String {
+        trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
+    }
 }
 
 private final class PostPreviewCache {
diff --git a/Tests/KeystoneTests/Tests/Models/PostTests.swift b/Tests/KeystoneTests/Tests/Models/PostTests.swift
index bef189b9d973..af8a71bca73b 100644
--- a/Tests/KeystoneTests/Tests/Models/PostTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/KeystoneTests/Tests/Models/PostTests.swift
@@ -259,6 +259,15 @@ class PostTests: CoreDataTestCase {
         XCTAssertEqual(post.contentPreviewForDisplay(), "some contents\u{A0}go here")
     }
 
+    func testThatContentPreviewForDisplayTrimsLeadingAndTrailingNewlines() {
+        let post = newTestPost()
+
+        post.content = "<p>Paragraph 1</p><p>Paragraph 2</p>"
+        let preview = post.contentPreviewForDisplay()
+
+        XCTAssertEqual("Paragraph 1\nParagraph 2", preview)
+    }
+
     func testThatEnablingDisablingPublicizeConnectionsWorks() {
         let post = newTestPost()